2024 was a below average crawfish season, because of the historic drought in 2023. But the LSU AgCenter’s Todd Fontenot says early signs show a more normal 2025 crawfish season and he’s expecting crawfish acreage will go up….
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Fontenot says higher rainfall totals this year have improved field conditions.
There are 18 parishes in Louisiana that have instituted outdoor burn bans and that number is expected to grow as LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says dry conditions are expected to persist for the foreseeable future…
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Chilly start to the morning as temperatures are in the 40s, but it will warm up to the 70s today and high temperatures in the 80s will return for the weekend.
A new statewide survey finds one in three Louisiana High schoolers vape and one in five middle schoolers vape. Chrishelle Stipe with the Louisiana Public Health Institute pins a portion of the blame on manufacturers of vape products, saying they’re specifically marketing their products towards children….
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Under Louisiana law, you need to be 21 to buy any tobacco or nicotine product, including vaping devices. But Stipe says that’s not stopping parents from buying vape products for their kids, mistakenly thinking that those products are safer to use than cigarettes.
Sean Payton returns to the Superdome as his new team, the Denver Broncos, will battle the New Orleans Saints in Thursday night football. NFL analyst Mike Detillier of WWL Radio expects Payton will receive a mixed reaction from Who Dat Nation….
The Saints will also honor Drew Brees tonight as the franchise’s greatest quarterback will be inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame.