Voters will finally see a US Senate debate featuring all three major candidates tonight. Senator Mary Landrieu and Republican challengers, Congressman Bill Cassidy and retired Air Force Colonel Rob Maness will face off in Shreveport at 7PM. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley predicts this will be an exciting debate…

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The debate, sponsored by Council for a Better Louisiana in partnership with Louisiana Public Broadcasting, will be televised statewide on LPB stations.

Election day is in three weeks and Secretary of State Tom Schedler wants Louisiana voters to download their GeauxVote mobile phone app. It’s a convenient way to get all of the election information you may need. Schedler says the app is absolutely free and very easy to get…

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Election day is November 4th.

A state judge grants a temporary restraining order keeping the ashes from the incineration of a Dallas Ebola victim’s belongings from being disposed in a Louisiana landfill. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell sought the order and it was supported by state officials, including House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, who says there’s too many unknowns with Ebola to have potentially hazardous Ebola waste come across state lines…

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Linen, bedding and carpet from the apartment of Thomas Duncan, who died from Ebola, was destroyed at an incinerator in Port Arthur, Texas and was set to be transported to a landfill in Calcasieu Parish.

A state of emergency has been issued by Governor Bobby Jindal as a result of the severe weather that moved the through the state yesterday. Kevin Davis, director of the governor’s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness, says some areas experienced 60 mile per hour winds when the storm system moved through. He says the declaration is designed to help local governments…

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Davis says Ouachita Parish appears to be one of the hardest hit areas.