The Cenla Medication Access Program’s (CMAP) Cancer Screening Mobile Unit will visit LaSalle Parish on December 2 and 3 to offer free breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screenings for eligible Central Louisiana residents.The mobile unit will be in the parking lot of Walmart at 3670 West Oak Stre...

Drivers and passengers in Louisiana are wearing their seat belts in record numbers, and statewide statistics are showing a dramatic difference in survival rates between those who buckle up and those who don’t.Highway safety and medical professionals made the case during National Injury Prevention Da...

Sixteen 4-H’ers from across the parish flexed their engineering abilities at the 2025 4-H Water Rocket Workshop held on November 3, 2025, at the LaSalle Parish fairgrounds and Jena Community Center. Each participant built a water rocket from three, two-liter coke bottles while working with a partner...

The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) recently released results from the beginning-of-year literacy screener for students in kindergarten throu...

When Hwy. 28 was a dirt fill across the Saline swamp, you could go to the Muddy Bayou bridge and that was the end of travel on that road, at that time...

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