After an effort to ban hemp-derived THC products in Louisiana failed last week, state lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that would add new regulations to the booming $33 million industry.
The two-story, whitewashed theater, with its Greek columns and round stage, occupies a lonely section of the former Six Flags theme park in New Orleans East.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge celebrates its centennial this month with dozens of events aimed at getting people out to explore its beauty and unique value. It protects more than 240,000 acres of river floodplain -- the kind that, elsewhere in the watershed, h…