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Alexandria Farmers Market Celebrates 10 Years
ALEXANDRIA, La. - The Alexandria Farmers Market is celebrating ten years of serving the Central Louisiana community, marking a decade of growth, resilience, and community building. Over the past decade, the market has served as a crucial food access point, a farm and food business incubator and a community gathering...
Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
Where can you go in the Alexandria/Pineville area to get good chicken wings? According to a Town Talk readers’ poll, it’s Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville. The restaurant located at 2708 Highway 28 East won with 25.58 percent of the votes. Buffalo Wild Wings, 2711 S. MacArthur Drive, in Alexandria came in second with 20.93 percent. Twenty restaurants were listed in the poll. This article originally appeared on Alexandria Town Talk: Poll: Pelican Seafood & Poboy in Pineville has the best chicken wings
National Hunting and Fishing Day set for Sept. 28, 2024
Louisiana’s National Hunting and Fishing Day (NHFD) will be held Sept. 28 at four locations across the state, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced. Waddill Wildlife Refuge in Baton Rouge, Woodworth Shooting Range in Woodworth, the Tom Merrill Recreation Area at Bodcau Wildlife Management Area (WMA)...
Don’t Wear White After Labor Day – Louisiana, Do You Know Why?
In Morgan City, Louisiana the booths are being prepared, the stages are being built, the power lines are being run, and the funnel cakes are about to be dropped into the grease. It is the annual celebration of seafood and oil that's known as the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Tropical Models Raising Concerns for Louisiana & Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana parents know the eerie feeling that quietness can bring on. For example, you're working in your home office, and the kids are supposed to be playing. But you don't hear them; they are being quiet—too quiet. That's when a parent's "spidey senses" start tingling because they know they could literally be seconds from disaster.
One-on-One: Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple discusses the insurance crisis & efforts to address it
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -On the third anniversary of Hurricane Ida, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple discussed the stubborn insurance crisis and said he works every day to solve the problem. Hundreds of thousands of insurance claims were filed after Ida devastated southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2021, the same day...
Underage Drinkers in Louisiana Have More Rights Than You Think
Football season is about to hit Louisiana like a Dustin Poirier right hand to the jaw. It gets underway with High School Jamborees in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and just about every other community in the state. Most of those jamborees will take place either tonight or Friday. Then we start the college football season on Saturday and the professional football season will begin their games on September 5th.
Former Atlanta CFO Jim Beard Sentenced to Three Years for Misuse of City Funds
Jim Beard, Atlanta's former Chief Financial Officer, was sentenced to three years in prison for misusing government funds for personal luxuries like hotel stays and machine guns. He will also serve three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Beard's fraud,...
Don’t Wear White After Labor Day – Louisiana, Do You Know Why?
In Morgan City, Louisiana the booths are being prepared, the stages are being built, the power lines are being run, and the funnel cakes are about to be dropped into the grease. It is the annual celebration of seafood and oil that's known as the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Louisiana Blue Named Official Health Insurance of LSU Athletics
BATON ROUGE — Two Louisiana institutions – LSU Athletics and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana – have announced a new, multi-year, multimedia rights partnership. Louisiana Blue is now the Official Health Insurance of LSU Athletics. “We are thrilled to partner with LSU Athletics as the...
Stormy times ahead with heavy rains possible
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Stormy periods are on the way as a wet pattern settles in along the Gulf Coast heading into the holiday weekend. A quiet early morning will give way to a stormy lunch and afternoon period today. Rain chances are up to 80% and some of those storms will be quite heavy. Even though we’ve been dry, street flooding is a possibility due to the tropical downpours that are possible. The benefit to the clouds and rain will be temperature generally staying in the 80s through the day.
City, state leaders push to honor Hurricane Katrina as a Louisiana holiday
NEW ORLEANS — Nineteen years ago one of America's deadliest hurricanes struck the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina was a category three storm that ended up being one of the country's most costly natural disasters. Nearly two decades on, the city is still healing. Now city and state...
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