 | BY CHAD CALDER | Staff writer |
Shockingly high: How have your electricty bills been lately? If you're like many, you watched them climb in recent months. Reporter Robert Stewart recently spoke with a woman charged more than $700 by Entergy Louisiana. And it's not just power, similar problems with skyrocketing bills have continued for many customers of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board, as reporter Tony McAuley writes. For more business coverage, please sign up for our NOLA Business Insider newsletter.
The bug next door: A rare soil bacteria that can cause an infectious, life-threatening illness known as melioidosis has recently been discovered in Mississippi. Should we be worried here in Louisiana? Emily Woodruff has talked to the experts.
In Grand Isle, it's still after Ida:: The annual Tarpon Rodeo can always be counted on to breathe life into Grand Isle, but this year there is a focus on putting the attention on the struggle that persists a full 11 months after Hurricane Ida.
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