4:30 PM LRN Newscast

It’s still winter but for the next few days, it feels like late Spring. LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says temperatures will plummet early Sunday when a cold front arrives. The coldest temperatures will come Tuesday morning.

Cut 11 (08) “…across the state.”

Keim says temperatures will rise again next Wednesday.

King cake season is over; seafood season is here. Samantha Carroll, the executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, says Lent is always a big time for the state’s seafood industry.

Cut 11 (10) “…and enjoying seafood.”

A new Senate poll could spell big problems for Bill Cassidy. Andrew Greenstein reports.

Cut 1 (35) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

A Republican state representative has filed a trio of bills targeting carbon capture. The lead measure Pineville Representative Mike Johnson has filed is the Louisiana Landowners Protection Act, which would eliminate eminent domain for carbon capture projects. Johnson notes that eminent domain is an important tool for “public necessary purposes.”

Cut 6 (09) “…for that use.”