A man and a woman are dead following a plane crash near Raceland. Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson says the 1976 Cessna 210L owned by Southern Seaplanes went down last night in a remote marsh area and it was located two miles north of Highway 182 near the intersection of Highway 90. "About 7:30 this morn...

This week, Governor Jeff Landry appointed Bryan Adams as the new leader for the Office of Motor Vehicles following Commissioner Dan Casey's resignation. OMV is suffering from system outages due to outdated technology. Adams was serving as the State Fire Marshal, and he's optimistic OMV customers will start to see impro...

The price at the pump has jumped 3 cents from yesterday, bringing the statewide average price for regular gasoline to $2.82 per gallon. Don Redman with AAA says gas prices rise at this time of the year as refineries shut down operations to switch from a winter blend to a summer blend gasoline. "Summer blend gasoli...

The hurricane forecast team at Colorado State University is calling for an above-average hurricane season. Lead researcher Phil Klotzbach says warm water in the Atlantic will help produce 17 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes and the chances of an El Nino are quite low. "An El Nino tends to in...

The Southern Shrimp Alliance is applauding President Trump's imposing of tariffs on imported shrimp. Leann Bosarge, a board member at the Southern Shrimp Alliance, says she hopes the tariffs will provide a boost to the U.S. shrimping industry. "We hope that this will be the first step to level the playing field fo...