It’s national oyster day and the Bayou State is very familiar with the well-loved seafood, but the local industry has been in serious recovery mode thanks to the last two hurricane seasons. Oyster Task Force Chairman Mitch Jurisich says they are starting to see oyster spawns.
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He says Ida wiped out the Houma area, and in Plaquemines Parish, they lost about 30 percent of their crop, other areas lost as much as 80 percent.

Governor John Bel Edwards is off to Europe today to swap flood control challenges with the Netherlands.
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The governor will see firsthand one of the Netherlands’ ambitious and innovative flood control infrastructure.

Entergy says the doubling of natural gas prices from June of last year to June of this year has resulted in the higher than normal electric bills this summer. But Public Service Commissioner Craig Greene says there should be incentives for utility providers who lock in prices early and pass those savings to ratepayers…
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During the regular session, lawmakers approved four cancer care bills that advocates say provide cutting edge cancer testing and treatments that will be covered by your insurance. Cancer survivor and former state representative Julie Stokes says cancer testing will be enhanced by a biomarker testing legislation and another new law expands access to precision medicine…
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