Warning messages that flash on large, lighted signs along Interstate 20 start with a series of 16 video cameras posted installed along the interstate in Shreveport and Bossier City. Operators stationed in Bossier City send the messages when they notice traffic snarls. The cameras went live in 2007.

Gov. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret, Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover, Shreveport City Councilman Ron Webb and Caddo Parish Administrator Woody Wilson met with GM President Troy Clarke and GM VP of Manufacturing Tim Lee today at GM headquarters in Detroit to discuss the future of the local assembly plant.

DeSoto Parish Police Jury Administrator Bernon Thomas resigned Friday prior to a scheduled meeting to consider the future of his employment status in the wake of a failed drug test.

Paying back debt seems like a simple proposition: you pay what you owe, plus interest. But for Bossier City and Bossier Parish governments, which are about to be flooded with money from the Haynesville Shale, paying back debt is a careful dance between market forces, community needs, and of course, politics.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is the latest target of Democrats who are trying to tar Arizona Sen. John McCain's possible vice presidential picks.

Kendrick Farris did Shreveport proud.

With property in northwest Louisiana in high demand for drilling leases in the Haynesville Shale, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell cautions landowners to beware of a scheme designed to steal their mineral rights.

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana recently won three national awards from the Governmental Research Association for its work on political issues, government spending and ethics.

The Bossier Bar Association will host a fundraiser this year called The Citizen's Law School, both a lecture on the Haynesville Shale, and private booths, which citizens can rent for five minutes and ask an attorney any questions they want.

Celebrating a birthday today: NAOMI SOLIDAY, of Bossier City. ... BRIAN WASHINGTON, of Shreveport. ... CHERYLON GREEN, of Bossier City. ... RONNIE HUGHLEY, of Shreveport.