Louisiana utility customers will receive extra time to pay off their high winter power bills from last month’s historic winter weather that produced a huge demand for heat. Public Service Commission Chairman Craig Greene says they’ve ordered utility companies to spread their costs out over several months…
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Residents in Texas have received utility bills in the thousands instead of the hundreds, but here in Louisiana, the P-S-C has the ability to regulate utility costs.

Texas and Mississippi have done away with their mask mandates and instead are recommending to their citizens to wear masks when necessary. But Governor John Bel Edwards says that approach doesn’t work…
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Edwards says masks are still necessary as not enough people are vaccinated yet.

The World Meteorological Organization has made some big changes to naming tropical storms. Matt Doyle has more.
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After a stormy Wednesday, today’s forecast looks much better, sunny skies with high temperatures in the low to mid-60s.