Strong demand for mental health professionals to aid law enforcement seen at emergency calls in 2025. CADA's Adult Crisis Response Team dispatched more than 450 times. Second full year now underway.

CADA - Bossier Treatment Center opened its Family Renewal Program just over one year ago. Pregnant women along with mothers and their young children stay at the inpatient program, as the women receive addiction treatment.

Dispersals underway just days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration over the New World screwworm (NWS) approaching the southern U.S. border from Mexico.

Arkansas Atty. Gen. Tim Griffin said his office targets human trafficking and fentanyl production from China, which attempts to destabilize or weaken the U.S. internally with 'gray zone warfare' tactics.

LifeShare Blood Center will typically try to have at least a three-day supply of blood on their shelves. Late this week, they're done to a one-day supply. LifeShare provides blood to 100 medical facilities in Louisiana, East Texas and South Arkansas.

Governor Jeff Landry will ask lawmakers to double the budget for the Louisiana Giving All True Opportunity to Rise (LA GATOR) Scholarship Program for the 2026-27 academic school year. Last year's budget request was cut in half, in turn, cutting the available scholarships by half.

Early voting gets underway February 16 [less than three weeks away] for Arkansas' Preferential Primary, with the election March 3. The General Primary (Runoff) takes places four weeks later, on March 31.

Even as the NWS' Extreme Cold Warning ends, More than 105,000 power outages remained across much of North Louisiana, except for Caddo, Bossier, Webster, and Claiborne Parishes.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office has released aerial images from the CPSO Drone Unit, which show the icy road conditions at various spots in the parish. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution when traveling.

Winter Storm Fern left tens of thousands of people in the dark. Crews are still working to store power to all customers. Now the region is blanketed by an Extreme Cold Warning that's expected to linger into Tuesday.