THIEF RIVER FALLS -- Mike Conlin has retraced the tire treads of history, traveling the Jefferson Highway from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Eighty years ago, the route was promoted as a gateway to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - This monument on St. Charles Avenue in downtown New Orleans takes you back more than a century to a time when automobile travel was new and roads were few. The Jefferson ...

It took two days after a major pipe failure to ensure East Jefferson's water was safe to drink, and two weeks to fix the street above the pipe. One eastbound lane reopened Jan. 24. The other two are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane and Bill Johnson from Lexington, Ky., drove their light blue 1955 Chevy station wagon to Alexandria for the Jefferson Highway ...

At their most basic level, names are nothing but labels that human beings assign to objects and abstractions. Were that all, the current proposal to relabel Jefferson Highway as Jefferson Boulevard ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — Local leaders are hailing a newly unveiled hotel in Jefferson Parish as a potential catalyst for economic growth and revitalization along the Jefferson Highway corridor. The $5 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A young alligator was found stopping traffic on Jefferson Highway on Tuesday (July 30) morning. This was on the 500 block of Jefferson Highway near the train tracks. You can see ...

JEFFERSON, La. — A fatal hit-and-run crash on Jefferson Highway claimed the life of a 55-year-old Jefferson woman Saturday night, according to State Police. The suspected driver of the SUV involved in ...

Highways these days are supposed to convey you long distances at steady speeds, without much twisting and turning, right? After all, as the author J.R. Rim once wrote: “No road is straight until you ...

The Jefferson Highway sign placed at the corner of Jefferson Highway and Military Highway in Pineville is special to Roger Bell, president of the Jefferson Highway Association. “Because it is actually ...