Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a historic public-private partnership between the state of Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans and two global maritime industry leaders to build a $1.8 billion state-of-the-art container facility on the Lower Mississippi River. The new Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) in St. Bernard Parish will be able to serve vessels of all sizes, dramatically increasing Louisiana’s import and export capacity and stimulating the creation of more than 17,000 new jobs statewide by 2050, Port NOLA estimates.

Driven by major industries looking to cut carbon from their electrical sources, large solar farms have been proposed all across the state over the past six years, and the proposals easily number more than 130 since 2016, according to a recent industry count.

Jack Roney, who served the American sugar industry for nearly 30 years, was finally retired properly two years after he formally retired when he received his commemorative cane knife from the American Sugar Cane League.

Eight years into a U.S. program to control damage from feral pigs, the invasive animals with big appetites and snouts that uproot anything that smells good are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment.