Today is day one of hurricane season. GOHSEP says it’s ready, and it wants you to be too. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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UL Lafayette’s baseball season ended last night after losing to Mississippi State 19-5 in the Starkville Regional final. Kace Kieschnick reports…
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Today is day one of Hurricane Season, and GOHSEP is ready. Spokesman Mike Steele says the agency has spent the last several months preparing for the 2026 hurricane season.
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Steele notes that due to changes with FEMA, there may be more that would need to be asked of first responders at the state and local levels. But he notes that those are things that they had already started doing.
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Steele says GOHSEP has done its part in preparing for hurricane season – now it’s time to do your part.
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Steele says a great resource is the Get A Game Plan website and app.
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The UL Lafayette baseball season came to an end last night after the Ragin’ Cajuns fell to Mississippi State 19-5. The depleted UL bullpen couldn’t keep up with the Bulldog batters who knocked 20 hits and nine runs in the final three innings. Cajuns head coach Matt Deggs didn’t make excuses after playing 11 games in 13 days.
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The Cajuns made a frantic push to earn a regional bid, winning their final four Sun Belt series and finishing second in the conference tournament. They relied on a deep and talented freshman class, who Deggs says have only gotten better as the season’s gone on.
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UL-Lafayette ends the year with a 41-and-25 record after a disappointing 27-win 2025 campaign. It is the third 40-win season and fourth regional appearance for the Cajuns under Deggs, and he says they can be back and even better next season.
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2016 was the last time Tigue Moore Field hosted a Regional.
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One year after vetoing a similar bill, Governor Landry allows a bill to ban balloon releases to become law without his signature. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser is grateful that Landry allowed Harahan Representative John Illg’s balloon release ban to become law this time around, saying it will save wildlife in the long run.
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What was different about Illg’s bill this year is that it added balloon releases to the state’s existing anti-littering law, whereas last year, it was a standalone law. Nungesser says while balloon releases may look good when it’s happening, they cause problems when the come down
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Nungesser says when balloons end up in waterways, it’s not just the marine wildlife that could suffer.
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In his veto last year, Landry stated that it would have been impossible to enforce.
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There will be no new bridge over the Mississippi River named after President Trump. A bill to do so that sailed through the House died in the Senate. The author, Monroe Representative Michael Echols, says the purpose behind his bill was to coax the Trump administration to give the state a hefty portion of the three-billion dollars it would cost to build the additional bridge.
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Echols says this was his way of kick-starting the project, which has been talked about for 30 years.
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Echols says, in fact, the Senate told him it had no desire to take up any road or bridge-naming bills this year. He says naming the bridge after Trump was not absolute; it was contingent on him securing federal funding during his term.
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