Beginning at 5 tomorrow morning, Travel lanes across the bridge on Congress Street near Bayou Shadow Apartment, between Theatre Street and Monteigne Drive, will be shifted to the recently completed bridge deck and the currently opened lanes will be closed.  One lane of travel in each direction across the bridge will be provided.  Travelers are urged to use parallel routes of Johnston Street and Eraste Landry Road.  This project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Beginning Monday, Highway 1157-2 will be closed in Basile, about .2 of a mile North of Highway 190 and Highway 3277.  Work is expected to last one day.

(Lafayette, LA)  --  The Lafayette City-Parish budget proposed for the next fiscal year is 49-million dollars smaller than the current budget.  City-Parish President Joey Durel says city sales taxes are expected to remain flat and parish sales tax collections are projected to fall two percent.  The budget for 2009-10 is currently set at 587-million dollars, down from the current 636-million.  Durel says various vacant department positions will be eliminated, but no layoffs or pay cuts are expected.  In fact, Durel says he's proposing a two-percent, across-the-board raise for city-parish employees in accordance with pay plans approved last year.  

The wife of a  Keithville man found murdered in his home Sunday has been arrested for hiring someone to kill her husband.

State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham reopens part of the Mississippi River delta in Plaquemines Parish to recreational fishing.

First Lady Supriya Jindal was in Shreveport and Alexandria today to rally support for an effort to assist those affected by the Gulf oil spill crisis.

Here's a look at stories making national news.

A new national poll finds former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is currently the Republican with the chance of defeating President Obama in 2012. 

Arizona has filed an appeal in the federal lawsuit which resulted in an injunction against portions of the state's new immigration law.