Tropical Storm Nicholas is moving through southeast Texas and it’s not in a hurry to get out of the Gulf South region. The National Hurricane Center’s official forecast track calls for Nicholas to be downgraded to a depression late tonight and then just hover over southwest Louisiana until at least Thursday. State Climatologist Barry Keim…
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Governor John Bel Edwards says you don’t have to go back too far to know that depression can be as troublesome as a hurricane…
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Nicholas actually reached hurricane strength before making landfall during the overnight hours in Matagorda Peninsula, Texas. Because Nicholas’ track has shifted south, the potential impacts for north Louisiana have lessened.

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office believes they have found the 504-pound alligator that killed 71-year-old Timothy Satterlee Senior of Slidell. Satterlee encountered the alligator in Hurricane Ida floodwaters while checking on something in his shed. His 68-year-old wife tried to assist her husband, but the gator go to him before she could get help. Captain Lance Vitter with the St. Tammany Sheriff’s office…
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The alligator has been killed and an autopsy will be conducted to see if Satterlee’s remains are inside the alligator’s stomach.

The Louisiana Department of Revenue is taking steps to provide state tax relief following Hurricane Ida. LDR Secretary Kimberly Lewis says the department is granting automatic filing extensions to both individual and business taxpayers in the 25 parishes placed under a disaster declaration by the governor.
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The automatic extended due date to file is now January 3, 2022. However, Lewis says it is not an extension to pay any taxes due.