The Louisiana Department of Health has expanded its Heat-Related Illness Dashboard, and it gives a statewide view of emergency department visits for heat-related illness.
Cut 1 (29) “…I’m Brooke Thorington.”

Governor Jeff Landry has named former Congressman Doctor Ralph Abraham as the state’s first surgeon general. Abraham was serving as the state’s health secretary.

The National Hurricane Center is watching a tropical wave in the southeastern Caribbean that could reach the southern Gulf of Mexico this weekend. Forecasters are giving the disturbance a low chance of developing.

Lending Tree analysis of U-S Census Bureaus data finds that 23-percent of Louisiana adults 65 and over are still working that’s up from 19-percent in 2022, the tenth highest increase in the country. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says with prices up on almost everything, it doesn’t make sense for some to retire…
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Process Service Specialists, headquartered in Gonzales, has announced it will invest 3.5 million dollars over the next three years to establish a manufacturing facility at the Port of Lake Charles. The company expects to create 160 new jobs in Calcasieu Parish over the next three years. PSS Vice President of Fabrication Aaron Reeves says they are proud to be a part of the rebound of Lake Charles following Hurricane Laura in 2020…
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