Several LaSalle Parish ministers, public officials, and residents attending last Thursday’s National Day of Prayer event held in downtown Jena. The group prayed for an hour from local issues to national issues and leaders. Shown in inset clockwise from top left: Whitehall United Pentecostal Church W...

(The Center Square) – The Louisiana House voted to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in automobile taxes from the general fund to a fund dedicated to road and bridge construction. Members also voted Monday to ask the southeast Louisiana parishes that benefit most directly from a billion-dollar ...

(The Center Square) – Louisiana House leaders unveiled their proposals Monday for the state’s more than $36 billion operating budget and spending $1.6 billion in federal aid. The version of House Bill 1, the main state spending bill, the Republican-led Appropriations Committee advanced Monday is ver...

Urania Mayor Terri Corley announced to the Town Council last week that the town’s overall fire rating will remain a Class 6. She said the town’s PIAL ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards and CEO Paul Schubert of Strategic Biofuels LLC announced that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Louisiana Green Fuels, an...

The following were booked into the LaSalle Parish Jail in Jena during the past week: Timothy Cagle, 39, of Jonesville, was arrested April 15 by Jena p...