The temperature has climbed above freezing and progress will be made in re-opening major sections of Louisiana’s interstate system. State Transportation Secretary Joe Donahue…

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Work has been taking place around the clock to reopen the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. Boh Brothers is helping to remove the snow, which was much as two feet deep on the northern third of both bridges.

Washington D-C Mardi Gras business meetings and social gatherings begin today in our nation’s capital. Jeremy Alford, the publisher of LaPolitcs-dot-com, says this year’s event is getting off to a topsy-turvy start.

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Because of the numerous flight cancellations at the Baton Rouge and New Orleans airports, many people are arriving to the networking event of the year a day late.

Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow has filed two pieces of legislation to strengthen Agriculture Disaster Assistance. One of the bills aims to help livestock and crawfish producers when adverse weather or drought strikes and the other bill increases the flexibility for farmers with soybean crops covered by federal crop insurance…

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Letlow says she’s fighting to ensure Louisiana farmers have the support they need when disaster strikes.

Four duck hunters got caught in the winter storm on Tuesday and had to be rescued after their boat starting taking on water in the Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area in St. Mary Parish. Sergeant Jeremy Foret says after they got the call, it took LDWF agents more than an hour to rescue them…

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Later that same day, Foret and his crew rescued a duck hunter who ran out of gas in his boat. He also needed no medical attention.