Dave McNamara

New Orleans

Reporter at WVUE-TV (New Orleans, LA)

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Heart of Louisiana: Lake Bruin

3 days ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

ST. JOSEPH, La. (WVUE) - A Northeast Louisiana state park seems like a big of an oasis. Lake Bruin is a picturesque body of water, surrounded by Cypress trees. It offers a quiet spot for camping and an exciting place for fishing, all tucked away in the flat farmland of the Mississippi River Delta. To many, it’s a hidden gem uncovered by Dave McNamara in the Heart of Louisiana. For more, visit the Heart of Louisiana archive here. See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Click Here to report it.
Heart of Louisiana: Milky Way

1 week ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - Many of us rarely get to experience a night with truly dark sky, far away from city and suburban lights. Because of that, getting a glimpse of our own galaxy -- the Milky Way -- also is a rare sight. Night sky photographers say you don’t really realize how much light pollution there is, until you find a place that doesn’t have it at all.
Heart of Louisiana: Ponchatoula engine

2 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) - An old rusting train engine tells the history of Ponchatoula and its boomtown days as a lumber town. Engine No. 3 also stirs childhood memories for some people who, years ago, were able to climb aboard the old engine, as Dave McNamara finds in the Heart of Louisiana. For more, visit the Heart of Louisiana archive here. See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Click Here to report it. Please include the headline. Subscribe to the Fox 8 YouTube channel. Copyright 2025 WVUE.
Heart of Louisiana: Blimp base

3 weeks ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

HOUMA, La. (WVUE) - During World War II, the airport in Houma was a naval base for a squadron of blimps that searched for German U-boats, which were sinking American ships off the coast of Louisiana. A huge concrete foundation -- the remains of the blimp hangar -- still is visible today. Richard Cosse manages exhibits at Houma’s Regional Military Museum, which tells the story of the blimp base set up to counteract the Nazis’ “Operation Drumbeat,” in the Heart of Louisiana.
Heart of Louisiana: Kayak artist

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

LACOMBE, La. (WVUE) - For one South Louisiana artist, paddling a kayak has become a favorite way to get up close and paint landscapes along Bayou Lacombe. Artist Carol Hallock has found a way to combine her love of painting with her love of paddling, seeing the world from water level in the Heart of Louisiana. For more, visit the Heart of Louisiana archive here. See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Click Here to report it. Please include the headline. Subscribe to the Fox 8
Heart of Louisiana: Crawfish

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

ROANOKE, La. (WVUE) - Burt Tietje is a third-generation Louisiana rice farmer, who now spends half of his time harvesting crawfish. The German grain farmers who settled in Jefferson Davis Parish discovered that crawfish and rice are a great combination, not only in a bowl of etouffee, but also on the farm. At Tietje’s Tallgrass Farm in Roanoke, nearly half the acreage is now used for crawfish. It’s a rotational farming technique made for this state, as Dave McNamara shows in the Heart of Louisiana.
Heart of Louisiana: Red Iris

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

ABBEVILLE, La. (WVUE) - The red iris, one of Louisiana’s rarest native flowers, blooms each April in a swamp near the town of Abbeville—its only known natural habitat in the world. Unlike the more common blue irises found along canals and swamp trails across the state, this vibrant red bloom, known as the Abbeville Red or Iris nelsonii, exists in a fragile ecosystem on private property. For more, visit the Heart of Louisiana archive here. See a spelling or grammar error in our story?
Heart of Louisiana: Northshore Bluegrass

1 month ago | fox8live.com | Dave McNamara

COVINGTON, La. (WVUE) - On the occasional Friday nights, the finger-picking on a banjo, strumming of guitars and sounds of a fiddle accompany lyrics sung in tight harmonies. The live music spills out into the air from under a gazebo at the Farmer’s Market in Covington. It’s the monthly Bluegrass jam session, featuring musicians who range from novice player to semi-professional performers.
HEART OF LOUISIANA: Supermoon

Nov 18, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Dave McNamara

Share BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It can be awe-inspiring to glance up just before dark and see the full moon rising in the eastern sky and spotting a supermoon when our neighbor is closest to the earth is amazing. Gotta bring multiple cameras tonight. One for the video and then one for the full moon. I wanted to capture that giant moon and have it appear close to a familiar landmark. It looks so easy on TV. Mr. Mike, how are you? “Good, how are you?” Pretty good man.
HEART OF LOUISIANA: Ford Assembly Plant

Nov 4, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Dave McNamara

Share ARABI, La. (WAFB) - The building is massive, a quarter-of-a-million square feet under roof, tucked away on 25 acres of land along the Mississippi river in Arabi, Louisiana. From the second floor of the century-old building, you get a stunning view of the New Orleans skyline upriver. History was being manufactured here in the 1920s. Model T Fords that revolutionized America were being built at this facility. The assembly lines were mass producing cars that people could afford.

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