Drivers in Shreveport might start slowing down after more than 100 traffic tickets were issued in a three-hour period on Wednesday. Shreveport police officers, in conjunction with Louisiana state troopers, are cracking down on speeding on Interstate 49.

Reforming the New Orleans Police Department is a lot like rebuilding a home after Katrina, said Mary Howell, 60, a civil rights attorney in New Orleans for over 30 years.

Community leaders and organizers from Alaska gathered in New Orleans today to tell ecologists about the impact of a previous oil spill on their communities, and to warn the local community about the devastating impact the Gulf oil spill could have on Louisiana.

The impact of the oil spill on the wildlife has become a major concern as oil continues to gush from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, damaging their homes. And as reports of oiled birds, turtles and other animals begin to come into the Deepwater Horizon Response Joint Information Center, rescue centers throughout the Gulf are preparing for an influx of activity.

The New Orleans City Council’s committee on health care and social services heard troubling statistics about the city’s suicide rate and hunger among the elderly.

After the largest environmental catastrophe since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a New Orleans environmental organization has stepped up to prepare workers for the hazards of oil spill clean-up.

The state bird will get knocked off new license plates, so that Louisiana can instead commemorate its 200th anniversary of statehood.

A University of Minnesota Law School study released last week found that the implementation of the charter school plan in New Orleans public schools has actually perpetuated a separate and unequal system.

Louisiana experts are disputing newly published findings that high concentrations of lead in the poorest and oldest parts of New Orleans posed significant risks to residents, even before hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The “top killing” began Wednesday afternoon — a procedure BP hopes will finally plug the open well that has leaked at least 7 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month. Mud and cement are being pumped into the well to stop the flow of oil and possibly seal the leak.