Three Vermilion Parish residents and a non-profit are suing the parish government, claiming it used deceptive methods to approve the SpaceX deal. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Today is the final day of early voting. Polls will close at 6 PM tonight. The number of registered voters who have already cast a ballot is 433-thousand. So far more registered Democrats have voted than Republicans, 186-thousand to 170-thousand.

A new report from the Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership finds that the Capital Region leads all peer metros in annual job growth, adding 13-thousand,-seven-hundred jobs over the past year. Andrew Fitzgerald, the senior vice president of strategy and research, says the region also has an affordability advantage. Since 2019, home values and rents have increased less in the Baton Rouge area than in comparable metro areas.

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The next decent chance for rain in Louisiana could come on Halloween. Until then, LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim says drought conditions will continue to worsen…

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Keim says 89-percent of Louisiana is in drought, and 41-percent of the state is in either extreme or exceptional drought.