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• LSU Health Shreveport offers inhaled nitric oxide clinical trial for COVID-19 patients

  April 5, 2020 10:33 PM

  SHREVEPORT - The LSU Health Shreveport Department of Medicine has joined up with the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Alabama-Birmingham to enlist patients in a test study using inhaled nitric oxide to heal lungs damaged by COVID-19. In an email sent from the LSU Health Shreveport Department... more »

• Funding to make improvements to Dawson Creek drainage found Play Video

  September 20, 2019 6:22 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The City-Parish says it recently heard back from FEMA regarding a Hazard Mitigation Grant that would pay for improvements to Dawson Creek. The $4.5 million grant would go toward swapping out culverts under Broussard Street and Hundred Oaks Avenue for bridges and improve the concrete-lined section... more »

• Two-year Jones Creek Road improvement project wrapping up Play Video

  July 14, 2017 6:54 PM

  BATON ROUGE - It's a project that's been planned since the early 1990's. Construction on Jones Creek Road is wrapping up today, with people in the Shenandoah area saying it's about time. The improvements have widened the road from Coursey all the way to Tiger Bend. Work... more »

• Ascension to move forward on street widening and intersection projects

  February 6, 2017 6:08 PM

  ASCENSION – The Ascension Parish Department of Public Works will begin prioritizing Parish President Kenny Matassa's recommendations for street widening and intersection improvements on several parish roads. The following roadways are recommended priorities: - Beco Road - C. Braud Road - Cannon Road - Duplessis Road - Germany Road... more »

• Cemetery Road in Ascension to close for drainage improvements

  January 13, 2017 11:50 AM

  ASCENSION – Cemetery Road in Galvez will be closed due to month-long drainage improvements. The Ascension Parish Department of Public Works will be upgrading the culverts under the road. Officials say that a temporary road will be installed so traffic will not be impacted while the new culverts are... more »

• Transportation report reveals congestion costing drivers money

  October 19, 2016 12:39 PM

  BATON ROUGE – CRISIS, the Baton Rouge coalition for transportation improvements, released a report on the city's transportation infrastructure that reveals traffic is costing drivers on average more than $1,000 on gas due to congestion and an additional $700 in car repairs and maintenance due to poor roads. The report... more »

• DOTD looking at improving LA 30

  April 25, 2016 8:05 PM

  ASCENSION PARISH- The Department of Transportation and Development is looking to improve traffic along LA 30. Traffic is currently so bad, that drivers take alternative routes to avoid it. “It’s a straight shot from my area to come to work this way. But I avoid it and I actually make... more »

• NAACP says zoo plays important economic role in its current location Play Video

  March 24, 2016 3:19 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Zoo officials announced two places to potentially relocate the zoo to after a consulting firm, Schultz & Williams, was hired to study improvements to the public attraction. The firm has recommended moving the zoo from Thomas Road to BREC’s Airline Highway Park and or “Nicholson... more »

• False River improvements almost finished Play Video

  September 4, 2015 5:49 PM

  NEW ROADS - Fishermen say wildlife is improving around False River due to efforts to improve water quality in the popular oxbow lake. In the past 10 months contractors have dredged and pumped silt to form an island on the south flat of False River. The 16.5 acres of silt... more »