Louisiana agriculture and forestry suffered $1.69 billion in damage due to last summer’s drought and excessive heat, according to preliminary estimates by LSU AgCenter experts.Long stretches of record-high temperatures and little to no rain during 2023 led to yield and quality losses and increased p...

Unemployment rates released last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics for the month of February 2024 showed unemployment rates increased statewide once again, however, LaSalle Parish continues to remain among the lowest in Louisiana.The increase of people not employed saw the state percent...

Police Jury Race Tops List With current President Joe Biden (D) and 45th President Donald Trump (R) having already secured enough states/votes to receive their respective party’s nomination for President this November, voting on this issue may not take top priority for LaSalle Parish voters this Sat...

Including hallucinogenic mushroom manufacturingTwo LaSalle Parish residents were arrested recently and among the illegal drug charges included the man...

The following people were arrested and booked into the LaSalle Parish Jail last week: Ashley Turner, 32, of Jena, arrested March 4 by the LaSalle Pari...

The Jena Times is the oldest business operating in LaSalle Established in 1905, some five years before LaSalle Parish was created from Catahoula Paris...