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While the country’s major television networks broadcast images Thursday night of Americans violently breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, Louisiana’s Republican members of Congress said their Democratic colleagues ought to instead be giving prime-time coverage to a litany of other problems facing the nation.

(TNS) - Parts of Southern University's campus in Baton Rouge are slowly eroding into the Mississippi River, but state and federal leaders said Wednesday they have a plan to stop it.

Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called a special session for the Republican-controlled Legislature to draw new congressional boundaries after a federal judge struck down the map that won approval earlier this year.

The gathering would start at noon on June 15 and have to end by 6 p.m. on June 20th, according to the governor's proclamation.

It never made much sense for the state of Louisiana to be suing its own citizens over Road Home grants, more than a decade after the chaotic hurricane recovery program wound down.

NEW ORLEANS —

After news broke April 23 of three kids swept away by the Mississippi River's current, emotions overwhelmed U.S. Rep. Troy Carter.

Congressman Troy Carter accompanied US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on her trip to Louisiana Tuesday, touring the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Bayou Choctaw and GE’s Wind Turbine facility at the Michoud Assembly in New Orleans. Carter said it’s important to show how Louisiana is using resources to create green energy.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— The Mississippi is the lifeblood of our region and a significant economic engine. But the last 3 weeks have shown that this river can be very dangerous to people that live nearby.