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...

With the defeat of Amendment 2 at the ballot box, the question now becomes - what will become of teacher pay? The amendment would have converted stipends of $2,000 dollars for teachers and $1,000 dollars for support staff into permanent pay increases. It will take $200 million dollars to keep salaries at their current ...

Parents can now see how taxpayer dollars are being spent on public education. State Treasurer John Fleming and Baton Rouge Senator Rick Edmonds unveiled the Louisiana K-12 School Transparency Project Portal, a website providing financial data on public and charter schools. "It has every budget, every expenditure. ...

Governor Landry has ordered a temporary hiring freeze for the executive branch of state government. In a statement, Landry's office says the goal is to save $20 million dollars in the general fund. In a statement, Landry's office says the upcoming fiscal year's budget was prepared using a standstill approach, removing ...