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Posted Sep 29, 2022
Work is steadily moving ahead on the northern section of the parish's north-south roadway that will eventually connect I-220 at Swan Lake Rd. with LA Hwy. 162 via Crouch Rd. Completion of the extension from Swan Lake Rd. at the Flat River bridge to Crouch Rd. is expected to take two years.
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Posted Sep 25, 2022
Bossier Parish has seen its share of good fortune in receiving state and federal money to help fund parish projects, and Parish Administrator Butch Ford told members of the police jury that the parish hopefully will have success in funding requests to the state's capital outlay program.
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Posted Sep 20, 2022
A hefty donation to the Bossier Parish police jury's recreation department is going a long way toward improving several athletic fields at South Bossier Park.
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Posted Sep 15, 2022
Contractors for the Bossier Parish Police Jury are scheduled to begin road construction on Caplis Sligo Rd. from Sligo Rd. to Shadow Ridge Dr. beginning Monday, Sept. 19.
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Posted Sep 15, 2022
Plain Dealing residents will soon have broadband services available after a national company announced plans to extend fiber optic services to the north Bossier Parish community, thanks to a state grant.
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Posted Sep 7, 2022
Bossier Parish will team up with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to replace a critical piece of equipment designed to help keep the boat launch at Parish Camp on Lake Bistineau free from aquatic vegetation that has been a lake-wide problem.
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Posted Sep 3, 2022
Bossier Parish is on the receiving end of a $700,000 federal grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Land Water Conservation Fund to improve and increase facilities at Parish Camp, located on the southern end of Lake Bistineau off Fairview Point Rd.
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Posted Aug 21, 2022
Another group of parish asphalt roads that required major overhauls following flood water damage in 2015 and 2016 has been completed.
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Posted Aug 11, 2022
Maintenance projects on Bossier Parish roads is more than adding either a new surface of asphalt or replacing damaged areas on the roadways.
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Posted Aug 9, 2022
Bossier Parish Police Jury highway department workers are moving ahead with maintenance on parish roads, including repair and overlay projects throughout the parish.
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Posted Aug 5, 2022
Bodcau Dam Rd. located between Ben Durden Rd. and Duck Dam Rd. has been closed while contractors for the Corp of Engineers make repairs to washouts on the levee section of the roadway.
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Posted Aug 4, 2022
Approval of three cooperative endeavor agreements between the state Department of the Treasury, the state of Louisiana and the Bossier Parish Police Jury will mean $400,000 in appropriations for the parish, including one which will provide sewer and water lines to serve a new sawmill in Plain Dealing.
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Posted Aug 2, 2022
An overlay project on a portion of Linton Rd. from Parks Rd. to Linton Cutoff Rd. is currently underway and crews from the Bossier Parish Police Jury highway department are working to complete the job by the weekend.
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Posted Jul 25, 2022
A contingent of Bossier Parish Police Jury members were part of the large group of delegates attending the National Association of Counties (NACo) conference and exhibition in Cade County, Colorado last week.
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Posted Jul 22, 2022
According to an announcement by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, the LA Hwy. 527 bridge over Flat River in south Bossier Parish will be closed, beginning on Monday, August 1.
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Posted Jul 22, 2022
Bossier Parish is on sound financial footing with all funds "trending in the right direction" and no findings to report that would show anything negative.
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Posted Jul 15, 2022
There'll be no more detours for motorists hoping to drive Linton Rd. over Cypress Black Bayou. A new bridge over the reservoir was officially declared open to traffic Friday shortly after 4 p.m.
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Posted Jul 14, 2022
A drawdown of Lake Bistineau in Webster, Bossier and Bienville parishes to begin Monday, July 25 has been scheduled by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF).
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Posted Jul 13, 2022
Projects in Police Jury District 2 in the Haughton area are targeting both streets and drainage in a pair of Haughton subdivisions.
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Posted Jul 13, 2022
Applications are being accepted for a full-time LPN position at the Bossier Maximum Correctional Facility near Plain Dealing. Qualified nurse applicants will possess excellent communication, critical thinking and assessment skills and will be reliable and punctual as well as able to perform her/his job duties autonomously.
.jpg?sfvrsn=7cc86a1_5 "Jason Weinland, managing partner of jweinland Group Benefits, administrators of the Bossier Parish Police Jury's employee insurance plans, explains the numbers during a jury committee meeting Wednesday.")
