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Louisiana's $2B Mississippi River bridge project faces new delays amid unresolved environmental and design issues.
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and other legislative leaders said they would only support Gov John Bel Edwards to put $500 million toward a new Mississippi River bridge “if we have a target spot for ...
After six long years of design, expropriations, land acquisition and construction of the bridge as well as the Pontchartrain and Westbank expressways, the Greater New Orleans Mississippi River ...
Crescent City Connection bridge reflects into puddles as it lights up over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - More delays are expected for a proposed new Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area. The ...
The bridge that spans the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Gretna was one of the few ways out, until police from Gretna used force to stop pedestrians from crossing it.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GULF OUTLET BRIDGE SHOULD BE DONE BY SEPTEMBER OF THIS ... A $47 million project to restore 'the Green Bridge' on Paris Road, connecting New Orleans East to St. Bernard ...
New Orleans police are investigating an unclassified death after a body found in the Mississippi River near the Algiers Ferry Sunday morning. Police said the incident took place on the Crescent ...
The state is at least four years away from starting construction of a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge even if financing plans were in place today, ...
New Orleans did not take a direct hit from Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005. That storm did create a breach in a levee that flooded the Ninth Ward of ...
A long time coming. Calls for a bridge at New Orleans began as early as the 1820s and mounted as cities far up the river, starting with Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois, spanned their ...
New Orleans police are investigating an unclassified death after a body found in the Mississippi River near the Algiers Ferry Sunday morning. Police said the incident took place on the Crescent ...