Update: DOTD reported just before 9:40 p.m. that I-10 East has been reopened but advised that traffic is still backed up to Elysian Fields Avenue.

A man accused of leading police on a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash on Interstate 10 has been arrested, according to documents Louisiana State Police filed in Criminal District Court.

The interstate was eventually reopened but the exit and entrance lanes for I-10 east at mile marker 103 are still closed. Detours utilizing service roads, as well as the University and Louisiana Ave. exits are available to traffic needing to enter I-49 from I-10 E.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to ask for help to lower commercial tolls planned for the new Interstate 10-Calcasieu River Bridge in Lake Charles. He also spoke about the need for a streamlined federal environmental review process and help in building the I-10 Bridge in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana authorities are clearing homeless encampments around the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans ahead of next month’s Super Bowl. Gov. Jeff Landry (R) announced the sweep in an executive

Soon after Arctic air expands into the south-central and southeastern United States, a storm will brew along the Texas coast and spread a swath of ice and snow eastward across the Gulf Coast states in the week ahead,

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order that will assist in efforts surrounding the unhoused community.

State police distributed flyers informing them that encampments are relocating to a temporary shelter in a warehouse along the Industrial Canal on France Road.

Drivers can expect interstate lane closures in the coming days as part of the ongoing College Flyover Project.

South Arkansas residents are bracing for an arctic air mass that will drop daytime highs to the freezing point, and overnight lows to around 20 through Tuesday.

NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana state troopers began Monday notifying residents ... French Quarter and along North Claiborne Avenue under the Interstate 10 overpass — would be targeted for clearance this week. In a news release, Landry cited recent events ...

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