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The Jeff Davis Parish School Board voted Thursday to extend the federally funded Community Eligibility Provision program districtwide for the 2026-27 school year, ensuring all students in the parish continue to receive free breakfast and lunch.

Landry says research, education offered to residents Whether helping farmers improve crop production, teaching children leadership skills through 4-H or answering questions about home gardens, nutrition and disaster preparedness, the LSU AgCenter has quietly served as one of Jeff Davis Parish’s longest-standing educational resources for more than a century. For more than 110 years, the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service has connected university research with the everyday needs of residents by providing practical, research-based information designed to improve quality of life, strengthen communities and support economic growth.

(The Center Square) — New Orleans will take a major step next week toward deciding whether and where large data centers can be built in the city months after officials temporarily halted development of the facilities.

(The Center Square) — A bipartisan coalition of Gulf Coast lawmakers is pushing to change a 73-year-old law that limits their states' maritime boundaries to 3 miles offshore, potentially reshaping the regulation of local fisheries and generating billions of dollars in tax revenues from offshore energy and minerals leases.

(The Center Square) — A federal appeals court ended decades of court oversight of Concordia Parish schools Tuesday, handing Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill another victory in her effort to close long-running school desegregation cases.

(The Center Square) — Argent LNG signed an agreement Wednesday with Ukraine's stateowned Naftogaz Group to explore supplying liquefied natural gas from its proposed Lafourche Parish export terminal to Central and Eastern Europe, marking the company's latest effort to secure overseas customers before construction begins.

(The Center Square) — A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation that would fast-track a floor vote on Social Security's looming insolvency, using an independent board to draft a starting plan Congress could no longer easily ignore.

(The Center Square) — The federal government faces fraudsters utilizing technology more powerfully than ever before to take advantage of taxpayer-funded programs and steal taxpayer dollars. But it must be careful which tools it uses to reduce or eliminate fraud, as the wrong ones could put personal liberties at risk, witnesses warned at a congressional hearing Wednesday.