Passenger rail service could be soon available for a route that connects New Orleans to Mobile, Alabama. Brooke Thorington reports Mobile officials have to sign off on the deal…
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Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson (shasson) says cleanup efforts are going well following a Bayou Lafourche oil spill Saturday. Kace Kieschnick has the story…
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Rain chances are down this week compared to the last couple of weeks and all of the rain that has fallen in south Louisiana this month has helped the state’s sugarcane crop. South Louisiana crop consultant Blane Viator says rainfall totals are way above normal…
St. James Parish sugarcane farmer Bryce Gautreau says rainfall totals are way up over last year when the sugarcane struggled to grow because of drought conditions….
LSU Ag Center sugarcane specialist Doctor Kenneth Gravois says sugarcane production has been increasing in Louisiana and that trend will continue this year…
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Passenger rail service from New Orleans to Mobile is closer to getting on track, as soon as February 2025. Chair of the Southern Rail Commission Knox Ross says Amtrak and the City of Mobile will begin finalizing the paperwork over the next week so platform work can start in Mobile.
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Ross says the goal is to have service up and running in time for the 2025 Superbowl in the Big Easy
At one time there was passenger rail service from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Florida. But it ended with Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in 2005. Ross says they’ve been working on reinstating it ever since. Ross says rail service between New Orleans and Mobile would be twice daily, morning and night.
Stops in between New Orleans and Mobile will include Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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Cleanup efforts are underway after a large oil spill in Bayou Lafourche Saturday. The spill was traced to a leaking fuel tank and valve failure at the Crescent Midstream pumping station in Raceland. Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson (shasson) says response has been immediate and effective…
Public water sourced from the bayou is safe to drink while residents are still advised to conserve water out of an abundance of caution. Chaisson says containment efforts were focused around water intakes, secondary precautions are in place within the plant, and the Louisiana Department of Health is on-site for additional sampling…
17 aquatic salamanders, two turtles, and one crawfish were found dead because of the spill. Officials are searching for three alligators and four ducks covered with oil. Chaisson says most of the deceased wildlife was found in the stormwater drainage ditch before the leak entered the bayou…
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Residents can report oiled wildlife to (832) 514-9663 and are advised not to try to capture or treat oiled wildlife themselves.