What was the response to the inaugural Love Our Waterways month in Louisiana? Andrew Greenstein has the numbers.
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State Climatologist Jay Grymes says drought conditions are intensifying in Louisiana. Jeff Palermo has more…
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When it comes to foreclosures, each of Louisiana’s biggest metropolitan areas is at an elevated risk. That’s according to a new study by NestCash, which did a county-by-county analysis of foreclosure risk across the country. NestCash Founder John Carter says Louisiana’s mortgage delinquency rate is the highest in the country.
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Carter says, however, that while Louisiana has the highest percentage of mortgages 90 or more days past due, that pales in comparison to where the state was at 18 years ago.
Louisiana ranks 22nd nationally in foreclosure filing rate, with more than 29-hundred foreclosure filings in the first half of 2026 – that’s one out of every 724 housing units. Carter says the foreclosure process takes the longest in Louisiana by a very wide margin – taking nearly a whole decade to complete a process that would normally take no more than a year.
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Carter says the foreclosure risk is highest in Orleans Parish, followed by Evangeline, St. John the Baptist, Sabine, Caddo and East Baton Rouge parishes.
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The inaugural Love Our Waterways month was a huge success. Volunteers removed 68 tons of litter from Louisiana’s waterways throughout the month-long event last month. Susan Russell, the executive director of Keep Louisiana Beautiful, says one item in particular was the most collected item from waterways.
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Along with the plastic water bottles, metal cans and plastic snack packaging were also among the most commonly collected items from the waterways, and volunteers also collected 177 tires. Russell says the month-long event had quite the turnout.
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Russell says the volunteers ran the gamut from government organizations, schools, businesses, non-profits – and even families.
Russell notes that 80-percent of litter that ends up in waterways starts on land, so she urges you to do your part in always placing litter where it belongs.
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The drought is intensifying in Louisiana. That’s according to State Climatologist Jay Grymes who says above-normal temperatures are not helping…
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Grymes expects to see extreme drought and exceptional drought designations expand when the U-S Drought Monitor updates on Thursday. He says pastures are suffering, especially over the northern half of Louisiana and the forecast does not call for any significant rainfall for the next seven to ten days. He says we may have to wait until December before we start to see regular rainfall. That’s when the Super El Nino conditions will kick in…
Grymes says wildfires are becoming an ever-increasing problem as well…
He says preliminary numbers from the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry suggest as many as 80-plus fires in the state in recent weeks.
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Video circulating from Paris showing violent demonstrations and riots has raised questions about the city hosting its first NFL game Sunday between the New Orleans Saints and Pittsburgh Steelers. But Saints radio play-by-play announcer Mike Hoss, who is traveling with the team, says the unrest appears to be concentrated in northern Paris and surrounding communities, with demonstrations often taking place on weekends….
The team is enjoying an off day in Paris today. Hoss says the protests are a big deal, but he hasn’t seen any violence….
The demonstrations started as protests by students, who are upset with the poor school conditions and teacher shortages, but the movement has expanded to other issues, like cost-of-living, high fuel prices and cuts to public spending. Hoss says the NFL is closely monitoring the situation…