Interstate 10 in the Baton Rouge metro area reopened to both eastbound and westbound traffic Thursday afternoon, the Department of Transportation and Development announced.

The Interstate 10 closure spanned nearly the entire state, ending west of the Mississippi state line east of New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) had deployed crews traveling in both directions to treat the interstate's surfaces in an effort to restore normal traffic flow.

I-10 east from Gramercy in the Baton Rouge area to the Mississippi state line has remained closed since Tuesday after 10 inches of snow dropped on the New Orleans area. Officials have made strides in opening most of the city's other major roadways, but were still working to clear off ice from the popular thoroughfare.

Louisiana DOTD officials have closed a large part of interstate 10 due to the icy conditions on the road. DOTD says that I-10 is closed in both directions from the Louisiana-Texas state line to Baton Rouge.

A significant portion of I-10 is closed in both directions in Louisiana west of Baton Rouge to the Texas border.

The latest closure means that nearly three-quarters of Louisiana’s portion of the coast-to-coast highway is shut. A rare winter storm brought record snowfall to the state on Tuesday.

Interstate 10 reopened to westbound traffic from I-49 in Lafayette to the Texas border ... schedule to prepare for and respond to the rare Louisiana snowstorm that brought blizzard conditions ...

In Louisiana, the Department of Transportation ... dumping record amounts of snow from Texas into Florida along Interstate 10. According to totals from the National Weather Service in Baton ...

A dangerous winter storm sweeping across the South is dumping heavy snow across Houston and other major metropolitan areas along the Interstate 10 corridor.

A powerful winter storm, fueled by a whirling mass of Arctic air, brought much of the Sun Belt to a standstill and plunged temperatures into the teens. Warmer temperatures weren’t expected until the weekend.

A woman driving on Interstate 10 in Louisiana pulled over and passed out during a medical emergency, leaving her children to seek help, officials say. Street View ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A crash that had slowed down traffic for hours has since cleared from the I-10 Katy Freeway. The incident, which involved an 18-wheeler, had been there since about 5:30 a.m. in the westbound lanes of the freeway at Antoine.