Starting May 7th, you will need a Real ID to board a flight. Dan Casey, the commissioner of the Office of Motor Vehicles, says getting a Real ID is easy at your local OMV office. A birth certificate or passport and two pieces of mail, are needed to obtain a Real ID.
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With Real IDs, verification records will be kept by the state. There is no additional charge to update your ID to a Real ID.
Starting in May, nonstop flights between Shreveport and Nashville will begin. Mark Crawford, the airport business and development manager for the Shreveport Airport Authority, says Allegiant Airlines will begin a trial run offering the flights on Thursdays and Sundays. And he says if you plan properly, you can get a round-trip flight for less than 100 dollars.
The flights begin May 22nd
Two Louisiana high school football teams have been disqualified from the playoffs. Kace Kieschnick tells us why…
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There’s an effort to preserve film tax credits, which are being threatened in Governor Landry’s tax reform package. Film industry leaders have told legislators if the film tax credit program is eliminated, hundreds of jobs will go away. But Marrero Senator Patrick Connick says these tax credits mostly benefit producers who do not live in Louisiana…