8:30 AM LRN Newscast

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago this week. After the levees broke everything changed. Now the levee boards have been consolidated. Chief Policy Officer for Leaders for a Better Louisiana, Barry Erwin…

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It’s Voter Registration Week and Joel Watson with the Secretary of State’s office wants to remind voters to make sure their information is up to date before the upcoming elections. Updates can be done through the Geaux Vote app or online.

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Tangipahoa Parish firefighters were busy all weekend fighting a fire at a lubricant manufacturing facility after an explosion Friday. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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The EPA is now leading the cleanup.

North and Central Louisiana are getting a new area code.

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Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell says the 3-1-8 area code has run out of seven-digit numbers and starting today, the area will have to dial their area code plus the other seven digits to make a phone call. Beginning, September 25th, newly assigned phone numbers in north and central Louisiana will have a 4-5-7 area code.