President Biden has approved Louisiana’s request for an emergency declaration in the state’s battle against saltwater intrusion moving up the Mississippi River. GOHSEP spokesperson Mike Steele says steps are being taken to protect the drinking water in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes…
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Good news in the battle against wildfires in southwest Louisiana as two of the fires are now considered 100-percent contained, the Lions Camp Road fire in Vernon Parish and the Elizabeth fire in Allen Parish. Vernon Sheriff Sam Craft says the Lions Camp Road fire consumed nearly 800 acres…
cut 4 (07) “….was so dry”

906 people died on Louisiana’s roads last year in crashes which is a seven percent decrease from 2021. That’s according to statistics compiled by the Center for Analytics and Research in Transportation Safety at LSU. So why the decrease? Louisiana Highway Safety Commission spokesperson Greg Fischer says traffic volume increased in 2022 as we moved further away from the pandemic…
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Fisher says in 2022 there was an eight-percent increase in DWI arrests.