The highway would help with hurricane evacuation, an increasingly pressing issue as Louisiana has been repeatedly pounded by powerful storms. It would also alleviate the dangers posed by the Thruway.

PORT FOURCHON, La. -- Every day, about a thousand 18-wheelers rumble south on a two-lane road through the marshes of south Louisiana on their way to a town where nobody lives. The trucks arrive at ...

Louisiana’s ‘hurricane highway’ came with a high price. Another bill is due. The MRGO shipping channel was closed in 2009, but a funding dispute has stalled wetlands restoration ...

Construction will begin early next year on a $463 million project that will add 8.3 miles of elevated highway in Louisiana‘s Lafourche Parish.. State highway chief Shawn Wilson executed the contract ...

State leaders had a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday for Phase II of the LA-Improvement Project. The elevated Highway 1 in Lafourche Parish, which runs from Port Fourchon to Leeville, is being ...

A tolling plaza will be included shortly after the elevated highway forks off from La. 3235 because once the entire 8.3 miles of highway opens between Golden Meadow and Leeville, it is expected ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Residents, stakeholders, and local elected officials came to Wossman High School on Oct. 28 to discuss the proposed Hwy. 165 safety improvement project in Monroe. The project ...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is selling four of five historical bridges on Highway 90 that connect Slidell to Mississippi.

Louisiana is one of a handful of states – Georgia is another – that is gaining a national reputation for using P3s to build high-profile infrastructure projects, many of which feature new tolls.