The Louisiana Health Department does not find heightened levels of lead after testing the drinking water in 12 elementary schools built before 1986. Jeff Palermo has more…
There’s only two months left in Hurricane Season. State Climatologist Barry Keim says looking back through history, you’ll find several cases of dangerous, and damaging storms slamming Louisiana in October, and even as late as Halloween.
But Keim says this time of year storms tend to track more to the east, and away from the bayou.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case brought by Edward Poitevent of St. Tammany who’s protesting the designation of some of his land as critical habitat for the endangered dusky gopher frog. Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity Collette Adkins says U-S Wildlife and Fisheries demonstrated during the proceedings that Poitevent’s claims that the land is not habitable are untrue. She says it may not be the perfect habitat, but it’s as close as the endangered species is going to get…
The frog requires rare “ephemeral ponds” to survive in the wild, ponds which exist on the property.
Governor John Bel Edwards is in California today working the movie business crowd to try and get more film and TV production in Louisiana. Today he’s meeting with executives from Netflix, Warner Brothers, NBC, and Walt Disney. Edwards says he’s looking forward to luring in more business, and productions have spent 1.29 billion dollars over the last three years in the state.