A second terminal is in the works for Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. The city’s aviation director, Kevin Dolliole (DOE-lee-ohl), outlined the master plan to the city’s transportation committee last week, saying a steady increase in passengers necessitates the expansion.

Cut 4 (06) “…more baggage claim.”

The number of Louisianans on Medicaid has fallen to pre-pandemic levels. As of June, about 1.6-million people in Louisiana receive their health care coverage from Medicaid – that’s down more than 20-percent from the 2023 peak of two-million. PAR President Steven Procopio says the reason Medicad rolls spiked during COVID is because by rule, no one was being taken off the rolls during that time.

Cut 14 (10) “…disenrolled from Medicaid.”

Come Friday, one political party in Louisiana will be extinct. Colleen Crain reports.

Cut 2 (30) “…I’m Colleen Crain.”

Tragedy in Iberia Parish, as an 11-year-old girl is hit by a car and killed. State Police say Nahelie Sinitiere was trying to cross Highway 674, East Admiral Doyle Drive, near the intersection of Whitney Drive when she was hit by a car. She died from her injuries at a hospital. The driver stopped and cooperated; a voluntary breath sample showed no signs of impairment.