The Louisiana National Guard says they’ve gotten 10 bids from companies with ideas on ways to get rid of the 15 million pounds M6 propellant at Camp Minden. The EPA agreed to delay an open tray burn of the explosives and said they would entertain alternative methods. Col Pete Schneider says these 10 companies have all submitted proposals on what should be done…

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Not many details are being released about the bids themselves or the ideas being presented.

A MarblePort Polling survey on Louisiana’s governor’s race shows Republican David Vitter leading the field with 34-percent of the vote followed by Democrat John Bel Edwards 31-percent. MarblePort Founder Ethan Zorfas says Edwards is getting support from White Independent voters and looks to be sitting pretty good for a runoff spot…

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Zorfas says there appears to be a bit of a resurgence of the Democratic Party.

Spring officially begins today at 5:45PM. State Climatologist Barry Keim says as far as the Spring outlook, expect more precipitation over the next couple of months than we usually get because of the current El Nino…

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Keim says it would be great if the El Nino would stick around through summer because they tend to mitigate the opportunity for hurricane activity.

With the arrival of spring, crawfish season is in full swing in the Bayou State. Ray McClain is an aquaculture professor with the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Center in Rayne and he says not only will crawfish prices be down this weekend, there will be plenty of mudbugs out there. He says when the temperatures are up, the catch is up…

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You could easily find boiled crawfish this weekend at about $3.50 a pound.