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Landry launches DOGE-like government savings initiative

Julie O’Donoghue / Louisiana Illuminator
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Following in the footsteps of President-elect Donald Trump, Gov. Jeff Landry will establish a program to seek out waste and inefficiency in state government. Landry signed an executive order on Dec.

Former Rep. Huval nominated for ethics board

Julie O’Donoghue / Louisiana Illuminator
Friday, December 13, 2024
The Louisiana House of Representatives has nominated only one person so far to fill its open ethics board seat – a former legislator who is friends with Gov. Jeff Landry. House and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia, said former state Rep.

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LSU launches AI assistant for university employees

Piper Hutchinson / Louisiana Illuminator
Friday, December 13, 2024
LSU has launched a new artificial intelligence assistant for its faculty and staff. The system is called MikeGPT and is designed to quickly answer LSU-related questions and serve as a secure alternative to ChatGPT.
4-H’ers listen as organizers explain the history of Cajun prairies and how the students will go about planting the seeds at the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Anthony Bailey/AgCenter)

4-H’ers listen as organizers explain the history of Cajun prairies and how the students will go about planting the seeds at the Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge. (Photo by Anthony Bailey/AgCenter)

4-H students work to repopulate native species

Anthony Bailey / anthonybailey@agcenter.lsu.edu
Friday, December 13, 2024
A six-acre plot of land in Cameron Parish sat empty, shelly and unused. It is surrounded by the Mermentau River and contains the same fertile soil that supports rice farms surrounding the area.
Anna Timmerman, left, an LSU AgCenter horticulture agent in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, recently was a guest on a Get It Growing TV segment about citrus. Get It Growing is hosted by AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg, right. (Photo by Randy LaBauve/LSU AgCenter)

Anna Timmerman, left, an LSU AgCenter horticulture agent in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, recently was a guest on a Get It Growing TV segment about citrus. Get It Growing is hosted by AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg, right. (Photo by Randy LaBauve/LSU AgCenter)

Plant citrus when the time is right for your location

From The LSU AgCenter
Friday, December 13, 2024
Citrus trees are abundant at retail garden centers during fall and early winter. They make beautiful holiday gifts, and they are one of the most popular types of fruit to grow in Louisiana home gardens.

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Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign starts

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
While most people in Louisiana are enjoying the sights and sounds of the holiday season this year, impaired drivers get to hear the jingle-jangle of shiny, silver handcuffs as law enforcement agencies gear up for the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign.
An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. (NOAA)

An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. (NOAA)

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Trump’s floating fish farms might surface in the Gulf of Mexico despite opposition

Tristan Baurick / Verite
Monday, December 9, 2024
Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration four years ago and is likely to gain traction again after Trump begins his second term next month.

Flat 3% income tax passes, sales tax rate raised to 5%

Quinn Marceaux and Grace Thompson/ Manship News Service
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry got the Louisiana Legislature to back his bet of lowering individual and corporate income taxes to stimulate growth in the state.