Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:51 PM EDT2013-05-22 02:51:36 GMT
The Bossier City Fire Department on Tuesday responded to a commercial waste disposal center after an outdoor pile of debris caught fire and threatened to burn a nearby wooded area.More >>
The Bossier City Fire Department on Tuesday responded to a commercial waste disposal center after an outdoor pile of debris caught fire and threatened to burn a nearby wooded area.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 9:07 PM EDT2013-05-22 01:07:58 GMT
Storms sweeping through the ArkLaTex Tuesday evening knocked out power to nearly 20,000 SWEPCO customers.More >>
Storms sweeping through the ArkLaTex Tuesday evening knocked out power to nearly 20,000 SWEPCO customers.More >>
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) -
The official groundbreaking ceremony got under way Wednesday morning at the site of Bossier City's newest riverboat casino complex.
Jimmy Buffett, who owns the property along with two other Margaritaville-themed casinos, was on site for the ceremonies. One location is open in Las Vegas, Nevada and another is expected to open within the next few months in Biloxi, Mississippi. The Bossier City casino will be the largest of the three.
Construction on the $197 million casino and hotel resort is already underway in Bossier City, with a targeted opening date of June 2013. According to developers, Margaritaville Resort Casino is projected to provide more than 1200 new jobs and more than $12 million in new local tax revenues to support jobs for our first-responders and educators.
Crews should finish the dirt work on the Margaritaville project in three months. After that, construction of the hotel and casino barge themselves will begin.
The Margaritaville Resort Casino will be the sixth casino in the Shreveport-Bossier area and the first new facility in more than a decade. It's expected to open in June of 2013.
Monday, May 20 2013 7:18 PM EDT2013-05-20 23:18:14 GMT
CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier has announced the closure of one hospital and the expansion of another, in what it is calling a "new strategic direction."More >>
CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier has announced the closure of one hospital and the expansion of another, in what it is calling a "new strategic direction."More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:16 PM EDT2013-05-22 02:16:08 GMT
Residents in tornado-stricken Moore, OK, await news on missing love ones Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado devastated the city, killing at least 51. Rescuers worked all night, with particular attentionMore >>
The tornado, with winds up to 200 mph, cut a 20-mile stretch as wide as two miles through the Oklahoma City metro area. The medical examiner's office reported 24 people died, including nine children. More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 10:01 PM EDT2013-05-21 02:01:16 GMT
PGA Champion and Shreveport native Hal Sutton released a brief statement Monday in response to the announcement of the pending closure of Sutton Children's Medical Center.More >>
PGA Champion and Shreveport native Hal Sutton released a brief statement Monday in response to the announcement of the pending closure of Sutton Children's Medical Center.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 3:28 AM EDT2013-05-21 07:28:53 GMT
Four days after storms swept through the Ark-La-Tex, people who live along Barron Road in Keithville are still cleaning up. Now, they're bracing for more possible severe weather on Tuesday.More >>
Four days after storms swept through the Ark-La-Tex, people who live along Barron Road in Keithville are still cleaning up. Some lost their homes, others lost their cars. Now, they are bracing for what future storms may bring.More >>
Monday, May 20 2013 10:14 PM EDT2013-05-21 02:14:25 GMT
A copy of a daily journal Allen's mother says her son kept, documenting school bullying
An ArkLaTex mother says her son was pushed to the edge by bullying, and took his own life as a result. More >>
An ArkLaTex mother says her son was pushed to the edge by bullying, and took his own life as a result. Now, she's speaking out in hopes of putting a stop to what she claims is an ongoing problem in the tiny McCurtain County town of Smithville, OK.More >>
If you really want to focus on the weather, our KSLA StormTracker 12 Weather app for Android and iPhone has location-based weather alerts, interactive radar, 10 day and hourly forecasts for any city. More >>
If you really want to focus on the weather, our KSLA StormTracker 12 Weather app for Android, iPhone and iPad has location-based weather alerts, interactive radar, 10 day and hourly forecasts for any city. More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:36 AM EDT2013-05-21 14:36:49 GMT
(RNN) – A day after long track tornadoes devastated Shawnee and Edmond, OK, another round has begun near Oklahoma City.KOCO broadcast a slow rotating cloud that slowly extended down towards the groundMore >>
Dozens of people have died after a second day of tornadoes twisted through Oklahoma, this time taking aim at the town of Moore, south of Oklahoma City.More >>
Paul Alanis, President and CEO, Jimmy Buffett (center), William Trotter, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Singer and owner Jimmy Buffett, on site with the developers of the Margaritaville Resort Casino groundbreaking Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The dirt work is under way on the new Margaritaville Casino and Hotel project.
An artist's rendering of the finished Margaritaville Resort
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