The National Weather Service has confirmed eight tornadoes touched down across Louisiana and Mississippi on June 18th, 2026, with damage surveys revealing significant impacts to homes, businesses, and infrastructure. The survey work continues on several areas, including Eden Isle, where meteorologists are analyzing whether additional weak tornadoes occurred within widespread wind damage. The tornado activity began early Thursday morning around 2:49 a.m. and continued through the morning hours, with the last confirmed tornado occurring around 8:12 a.m.
An East Baton Rouge Parish judge granted a temporary restraining order to block Governor Landry’s executive order to reallocate 168-million-dollars in the state’s public school funding formula to provide stipends for teachers. Greg Beuerman, the spokesman for the three plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the order, says it’s unconstitutional.
There’s a hearing set for June 29th.
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For the first time, WalletHub did a ranking for life as working dads for Father’s Day, and it shows Louisiana with an overall ranking next to last, ahead of only Nevada. Louisiana ranked no higher than 45th in nearly all metrics, with one exception: the male uninsured rate, in which Louisiana ranks 32nd. But Analyst Chip Lupo says, that number is being held down due to a large number of areas of high unemployment.
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If you haven’t gotten your crawfish fix this season, experts say time is running out as crawfish are starting to burrow. Laney King, the co-founder of The Crawfish App, says prices will stay where they are because there are simply fewer crawfish available and she says now crawfish are as affordable as they’ve been this season.