Joe Collins

2 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Joe Collins

PONCHATOULA -- In Ponchatoula, a city-wide yard sale Saturday offered shoppers a map of homes and businesses around the city that were clearing out stuff and welcoming in visitors. Founder Brenda Ernst said she got the idea in Breaux Bridge. "I'm sitting here watching this Highway 22, it goes straight to every street. I came up with the idea, it took me about six months to get it approved. People love it," Ernst said. Ernst says the city-wide yard sale started back around 2009.

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Joe Collins

BATON ROUGE — If you plan on going to LSU baseball's Super Regional series against the West Virginia Mountaineers this weekend, be prepared for an extremely hot weekend. WBRZ spoke with some health experts who said preparations for staying safe at Saturday's game really start Friday. "If you're planning on attending the game, you should probably start hydrating tonight. Drink plenty of fluids. When you wake up in the morning, drink some more water.

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Joe Collins

BATON ROUGE - Across Louisiana, the feral pig population continues to grow. They can be found in all 64 parishes, and the total number of feral pigs is around 900,000 inthe state. "When I first started this, I thought Texas had a pig problem, not Louisiana. However, when you look at the population estimates for the states and compare it by the land area, we have about the same density of feral pigs as Texas," LSU AgCenter's Interim Southeast Regional Director Glen Gentry said.

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Joe Collins

PORT ALLEN — Weeks after West Baton Rouge Parish voters rejected a drainage tax renewal, parts of the parish saw significant flooding after heavy rains. In response to that flooding event, the parish has brought in experts to help them find ways to move water more efficiently. "We have an engineering firm that came in and they're doing a study for a new project we're looking at doing. Maybe adding some more drainage, another drainage ditch in," WBR Drainage Superintendent Chad Doiron said.

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Joe Collins |Kelly Kissel

BATON ROUGE -- State Sen. Mike Fesi (R-Houma) has convinced lawmakers to pass his bill that aims to ban weather modification in Louisiana. The bill seeks to prohibit acts such as cloud seeding, which includes dispersing silver iodine into clouds to make precipitation. It has come to be associated with what some people call contrails and others call chemtrails - white streaks people on the ground can see after planes fly overhead. Fesi believes someone is spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.