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Derek Bridges/Copyright: Flickr/As plans for a potential return of Mardi Gras 2022 ramp up, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said she is interested in mandating a proof-of-vaccination requirement for passengers arriving in Louis Armstrong International Airport for the last two weeks of Carnival season — an idea that some state tourism officials hope doesn’t materialize. -
Austin R. Ramsey/IRW + WWNO/An industrial gas provider is moving to Ascension Parish with plans to build a $4.5 billion clean energy facility, Louisiana officials announced Thursday.
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Charities in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana say giving people money is faster and gives them back agency. But experts say cash alone can’t solve all the problems after a storm. -
At the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Delta’s landfall in Louisiana, state and local officials have mixed feelings about a long-awaited federal disaster relief bill that covers just a fraction of the estimated damage costs of that storm and Hurricane Laura before it.
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In a process that will impact almost every election in Louisiana for the next decade, the state legislature will hold the first of nine regional public forums on Oct. 20 beginning in Monroe regarding how lawmakers will draw the state’s new political maps and choose which voters to include in which districts.
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A decision to bring back Mardi Gras after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2021 Carnival season has not yet been made, but Mayor LaToya Cantrell urged Krewe leaders to search for ways to make Carnival season safe.
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The deaths of pregnant people in Louisiana mark a dramatic spike in severe outcomes for a particularly vulnerable group of people in Louisiana, but they’re also part of a national trend driven by the delta surge and low vaccination rates.
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FEMA isn’t expected to start taking applications for temporary shelters from the thousands of Hurricane Ida victims who lost homes until mid-November, so state officials are getting the ball rolling with a first-of-its-kind sheltering program.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and top state public health officials rolled up their sleeves to receive the COVID-19 booster shots and the flu vaccine Wednesday to increase vaccination rates ahead of what could be a severe flu season.
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Louisiana was posed to allow legal sports wagering in September, just in time for football, before Hurricane Ida made landfall.
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Loyola Univesity’s Law Clinic filed a suit Tuesday morning in Orleans Civil District Court against the City of New Orleans after evacuating children held at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center to an adult prison during Hurricane Ida.
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More than a dozen hospitals in Louisiana have earned a new designation for high-quality pregnancy care, as part of a push by the state health department to decrease Louisiana’s high maternal mortality rate and disparities in care that put Black women’s health most at risk.
