Louisiana’s Mineral and Energy Board has approved the first-ever wind farm operating agreements in state offshore waters. Colleen Crain has more…
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A major renovation project is underway in Bossier City to transform the old riverboat Diamondjacks Casino into the first land-based casino in the Shreveport-Bossier market. The casino-hotel project is expected to create about 15-hundred new jobs for the region. It’s expected to open in 2025.

Governor John Bel Edwards has 25 days left in office. He hosted his final monthly call-in radio show yesterday and was asked if he could run for a third-term, would he….
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Edwards and First Lady Donna Edwards will be grandparents for the first time in January.

A state department of transportation building in Baton Rouge has been named after Louisiana’s first black governor, P-B-S Pinchback, who led the state for a little over a month during reconstruction, December 9 ,1872 and January 13, 1873. DOTD Secretary Eric Kalivoda says Pinchback was the only African-American governor of any state during the Reconstruction era…
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Pinchback signed legislation that established Southern University in Baton Rouge.