The Shreveport City Council will formally consider today spending $600,000 on two street sweepers to target debris on arterial streets, highway ramps, intersections and medians.
Joe Mitcham says his peach orchard near Ruston is the largest in Louisiana. And having been established by his family in 1946, it's certainly one of the oldest. But Mitcham says he'll be lucky to stay open a few more years...all because of EPA regulations.
The wild blackberries, actually trailing dewberries, are ripe and ready for picking. You can find them along fences and in open fields throughout the area.
One of our biggest stories last week was the one about the dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Canada, Trout River, Newfoundland, to be precise. The point of the story was the growing concern that as the whale carcass deteriorated, gasses would build up inside the huge beast and it could, literally, explode!
A team of engineering and science students from Louisiana Tech University is preparing to compete, again, in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas. It's being held in Houston April 25-27.