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 ...

After riding 2,373 miles on main highways, back roads, gravel roads and even dirt paths, sleeping in a recreational vehicle in Walmart parking lots with a buddy he met up with in Winnipeg, Canada, and ...

Aug. 14—U.S. Highway 69's history as the Jefferson Highway will soon be the focus of many in the upcoming months. In 1915, the Jefferson Highway was founded by the Jefferson Highway Association, a non ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON PARISH, La. (WGNO) — Two eastbound ...

A Marion County jury on Friday found a Jefferson man not guilty of criminally negligent homicide or driving under the influence but guilty of failing to perform duties of a driver in a 2023 ...

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 ...