The injuries from Monday night's crash are significant and life threatening, Ponchatoula Police Chief Bry Layrisson said. Read More

Sometime in the dark of night on Feb. 28, three trucks left the yard of a well-known Ponchatoula recreational vehicle dealership, towing stolen fifth wheel campers valued at around $500,000 ... Read More

Traffic is now allowed to go towards Ponchatoula from Laplace.The reopening comes three weeks to the day after a deadly 168-car pileup on the highway. That massive crash, which was the result of ... Read More

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development released an update Thursday on the timeline to reopen north-bound I-55 and complete repairs on ... for north-bound traffic between I-10 and ... Read More

As Louisiana State Police continue their investigation into those crashes, engineers with DOTD are conducting a thorough examination of the interstate between I-10 and the Ponchatoula exit. That stretch of I-55 remains closed in both directions until Read More

Dense fog & smoke have combined to form what is known as Superfog (yes, it is the technical name) & this is still heavily impacting I-55 between Ponchatoula & LaPlace. The interstate was still closed ... Read More

Dense fog & smoke have combined to form what is known as Superfog (yes, it is the technical name) & this is still heavily impacting I-55 between Ponchatoula & LaPlace. The interstate was still closed ... Read More