The Jena Fire Department will soon receive a major communication upgrade thanks to a $40,000.00 appropriation by the Louisiana Legislature. Mayor LaDawn Edwards was quick to thank Senator Glen Womack for getting the line-item into the state budget that appropriated the money specifically for communi...

Employees of the LaSalle Parish School Board will receive their first bonus of the year at the end of June as members of the Board approved the bi-annual disbursements by a unanimous vote during their regular meeting June 3. Twice a year, the first in June and the second in November, employees recei...

Chelsea Morris of Jena, Louisiana, was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Northwestern State University of Louisiana.Morris is among approximately 20,000 students, faculty, profess...

Rylee Masters, a sophomore at Jena High School in Jena, is a Delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders to be held on June 25, 2025 – June 27,...

Jena High School Senior Brandon Rowton was recently selected to join 30 other top Louisiana high school students to serve on the 2025-2026 Louisiana L...

Approximately 30 individuals demonstrated across the street from the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena Sunday afternoon, June 8, for aro...