There’s the potential for heavy rainfall for southwest Louisiana and the Alexandria area today and tomorrow. LRN Meteorologist Bill Jacquemin has the latest…
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The head of the Office of Motor Vehicles has resigned. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Central and southwest Louisiana is under a flash flood watch until one o’ clock Saturday afternoon. National Weather Service meteorologist Lance Escude says it will be wet…
Escude says the heavy rainfall is the result of a storm system moving in from southern Texas…
A slight risk for severe weather is expected Sunday for most of the state, north of I-10. Escude says areas north of I-20 are under the greatest threat….
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Crawfish prices have dropped 25 cents, hitting a new low for 2025. According to the Crawfish App, live crawfish are averaging $3.64 a pound, when it comes to boiled crawfish, you can expect to pay a little more than six-dollars a pound. Prices are dropping, because supply is up. Evangeline Parish crawfish farmer Jonathan Fontenot…
Crawfish App co-founder Laney King says the start of April marks the historical true start of the heart of crawfish season, and she expects prices will continue to decline as we approach Easter weekend. Fontenot says 2025 looks like a good crawfish season…
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President Trump’s rhetoric targeting Canada, including the tariffs he’s imposed and his desire to make Canada a U.S. state, is having a profound effect on an event in Lafayette that’s intended to celebrate Canada’s influence on the Acadian people. More than half of the Canadians who had been scheduled to appear at the Great Acadian Awakening in October have cancelled their plans as a result. Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser told Jim Engster on Talk Louisiana that he’s very concerned.
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Lieutenant Governor Nungesser says the impacts on the Great Acadian Awakening could be just the start if relations between the two countries continue to go south.
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Nungesser says the souring relations between the two countries are also impacting Louisiana leaders’ travels to Canada.
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Four constitutional amendments are on Saturday’s ballot. The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has a nonpartisan guide available for voters. PAR president Steven Procopio says Amendment one gives the Louisiana Supreme Court the authority to discipline out of state -lawyers and it gives the Louisiana legislature the authority to create specialty courts not limited to parish and judicial district boundaries…
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Amendment two is the big one. It would enact new tax rules like caping the state income tax rate that lawmakers can charge and double the standard deduction for anyone 65 and older. Procopio says the measure would also dissolve three education trust funds and use the money to pay down retirement debt which would provide a permanent two-thousand-dollar teacher pay raise…
Teachers have already received the two-thousand dollar pay raise, but if Amendment Two doesn’t pass, the two thousand dollars could go away.
Procopio says Amendment three removes the list of 16 crimes for which people under the age of 17 can be charged as an adult and puts it into state law, so lawmakers can more easily expand the list of felony laws that could result in a person under the age of being charged as an adult…
Amendment 4 would change the timing requirements for filling a judicial vacancy or newly created judgeship, so the special election coincides with the regular elections calendar.
Go to parlouisiana.org to read up about the amendments.