Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state officials held a news briefing on Wednesday to update residents on the unprecedented weather event and its ongoing challenges.

He provided many updates on what the state is doing to weather the storm, including the fleet of snow plow trucks that are headed for our area as we speak. But if he had one message to hammer home it’s this: Stay Home.

Highs in the upper 60s this afternoon under mostly cloudy skies. We remain mostly dry leading up to storm chances overnight Thursday, and into Friday morning. Central

Most of the heaviest snowfall will blanket areas in the Interstate 10 corridor beginning after midnight Monday entering western Louisiana in Lake Charles and moving through Lafayette and then Baton Rouge with accumulations forecast south of I-10 to New ...

Bank officials announced the move Monday to offer banking and lending services in the capital city and that Jordan Hultberg, a longtime banker with Red River Bank, will head up the market. No locations were announced.

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A blizzard warning was issued for southwest Louisiana Tuesday morning ... first blizzard warning ever issued for the Lake Charles area. Snow began to fall in metro ...

Southern Louisiana can expect a winter weather event the ... Sabine to the Pearl" rivers and "extend from the coast to Alexandria" with Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans and Lake Charles in harm's way as snow begins to fall early Tuesday morning and ...

A rare winter storm buried the Deep South in a blanket of snow on Tuesday. Parts of South Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi saw more than 9 inches of snow on the ground, according to preliminary estimates from the National Weather Service.

A winter storm system pummeled south Louisiana with frigid winds and freezing temperatures Tuesday as snow blanketed New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A blizzard warning was issued for southwest Louisiana Tuesday morning as a strong line of snow moved into the state from the west.

Most Louisiana landscapes, yards, and gardens are not designed to handle extremely cold temperatures. In Lafayette last week the morning temperature was reported to be just "4" degrees, that's extreme cold and chances are you had some plants damaged by the drastic drop in temperature.