BATON ROUGE--The Senate Education Committee voted 5-1 Wednesday to advance a bill that requires mandatory kindergarten and school attendance for Louisiana children beginning at age 5. “We have about 2,800 kids who do not attend kindergarten in the state of Louisiana,” Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge...

LaSalle Parish will join thousands of parishes, counties, and municipalities across the nation Thursday, May 6, as the National Day of Prayer is observed. Each year the National Day of Prayer event is held with the major focus being on praying for the United States of America. In Jena, everyone is a...

The youth group from First Baptist Church of Jena volunteered their time one night last week to help the staff at the LaSalle Parish Library in Jena as they continue moving into the new library facility. Director Andrea Book noted the group worked very hard helping us move, sort items, and wash dish...

Man cannot live on bread alone. They need pickup trucks. If you have work to do, your pickup truck will probably be your number one tool. Without a tr...

BATON ROUGE--The House Commerce Committee advanced a bill Monday that designates the state’s newly created Office of Broadband to oversee the auctioni...

70 Years Ago April 26, 1951 National honors have been accorded to Louisiana 4-Hers for having the best records in the 1950 National 4-H Canning and Ga...