BATON ROUGE - Louisiana will be closing government offices statewide as it prepares for the potential impacts of Hurricane Laura.

The state made the announcement Tuesday, saying those offices will be reduced to essential personnel only.

The gulf coast is expected to begin seeing the effects of Laura Wednesday and into Thursday. Read the latest on the storm here.

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