Black bear sightings are up in Pointe Coupee Parish. Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux is concerned and advocating for action from wildlife authorities. He wants better management of the black bear population and wants authorities to take measures to reduce interactions between the animals and residents. Thibodaux recommends more aggressive strategies, like implementing new relocation efforts or revisiting hunting regulations.
A Toronto-based biofuels firm is proposing what will be the world’s largest carbon-negative renewable natural gas plant in St. John the Baptist Parish. Woodland Biofuels is investing 1.35-billion dollars to establish the facility in Reserve. Chief Business Development Officer J.P. Solmes (like “Holmes”) says Solmes says the facility would create hundreds of good jobs.
Cut 8 (11) “…transportation-focused roles.”
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LSU improves to 3-and-1 after beating UCLA at Death Valley. Andrew Greenstein reports.
Cut 3 (33) “…at Tiger Stadium.”
Millions of people living on the Gulf Coast are being urged to prepare as Invest 97L continues to become better organized and will likely become Tropical Storm or Hurricane Helene in the coming days as the system enters the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, experts say Tropical Storm Helene by the middle of the week and she could make landfall along the coast, somewhere between Louisiana and Florida by late Thursday.