Category Archives: News
LDH says Pfizer booster shot is available for certain groups
Booster shots are now available for adults who received two doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at least six months ago. The Louisiana Department of Health said those who are 65 and older, along with th...
Sep 24, 2021 Felton Davis / CC
Medicaid Oversight Committee members question LDH attorney about nursing home evacuation plans
There were several tense exchanges during a Joint Medicaid Oversite Committee meeting Friday where River Ridge Senator Kirk Talbot questioned Louisiana Department of Health Attorney Stephen Russo abou...
Sep 24, 2021
LSU AgCenter estimates $584 million in Hurricane Ida damages to ag industry
LSU AgCenter experts say the state's agriculture industry suffered at least 584-million dollars in damages as a result of Hurricane Ida. LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry says timber was hit the hard...
Sep 24, 2021 Courtesy of the LSU AgCenter
Lafourche parish residents are fighting mud, housing issues and fatigue almost a month after Hurricane Ida
A north Larose neighborhood that endured a ten-foot storm surge is dealing with almost a foot of sludge and standing water. Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson said the Industrial Park neighbor...
Sep 24, 2021
Grand jury indicts from state trooper for excessive force in May 2019 arrest
A federal grand jury indicts a former Monroe area State Trooper for excessive force in the May 2019 roadside beating of arrestee Aaron Bowman. Jacob Brown's bodycam footage shows his striking Bowman 1...
Sep 23, 2021 LSP Trooper Jacob Brown
National Guard Members Still At Work Assisting Ida Victims, Communities
Thousands of Louisiana National Guard members are still on the job helping victims of Ida in the southeast coastal communities. Spokesperson Noel Collins tells us what some of the citizen-soldiers are...
Sep 23, 2021
Gov Edwards hopes decision on next phase of housing for Ida impacted residents comes soon
Hurricane Ida left an estimated eight thousand homes unlivable and some of those individuals are living in tents and rubble where their homes once stood. Thousands of others are displaced. Governor Jo...
Sep 23, 2021 Governor John Bel Edwards in Washington DC advocating for disaster relief.
More difficult days ahead for the seafood industry as it recovers from Hurricane Ida
Hurricane Ida delivered another blow to the state's seafood industry, which annually produces millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, crabs, and oysters. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser says Ida's 150-mile p...
Sep 23, 2021 Jeremy Keith / CC
PSC Commissioner Decries Louisiana GOP Congressional Delegation Vote On Disaster Funding
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is taking the state's GOP congressmen to task, all five of them. He said they voted earlier this week against a continuing resolution to keep the ...
Sep 23, 2021 PSC Commissioner Foster Campbell
Gov Edwards reports his trip to DC to secure disaster relief funding has been productive
Governor John Bel Edwards has been in DC this week meeting with lawmakers in hopes of getting disaster relief funding for the state. He said it's been a productive week and measures have been introduc...
Sep 23, 2021 Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar / CC
