Term Limited Randal Gaines may be leaving the Louisiana Legislature but he isn’t leaving service to the Louisiana Democratic Party. Colleen Crain has more.
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Governor John Bel Edwards will hold his annual end-of-the-year news conference today at 3 pm. The governor’s “farewell address,” will be held in Amite, on January 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Ochsner Lafayette General has launched a million-dollar initiative to combat opioid addiction and abuse in rural communities. More than two thousand Louisianans died from a drug-related overdose in 2021 nearly doubling the national average, according to the CDC. Family Doctor James McNally at Ochsner Health Center in Jennings says it’s vitally important to remove the stigma associated with opioid addiction.
LSU AgCenter Crawfish Specialist Todd Fontenot, says there is an emergence of mudbugs in the Bayou State but the intrusion of salt water into freshwater marshes and bayous have many crawfish farmers concerned…