LaSalle Parish continues to trend with low unemployment numbers as the latest figures released for March show La-Salle tied for the second lowest unemployment percentage in the entire state. The data was released by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed LaSalle at 2.8% unemployment, tie...

The following were booked into the LaSalle Parish Jail in Jena during the past week. Heather Bradford, 42, of Trout, was arrested April 22 by Jena police and charged with no taillights, DUS, possession of CDS I (meth), possession of drug paraphernalia. Caleb Earl Jenkins, 21, of Trout, was arrested ...

The annual Junior-Senior banquet will be held Thursday, May 7 beginning at 6:30 p.m. This year’s banquet will be an outdoor affair. The Centenary College Choir lauded as “the finest, most talented and most colorful college choir of any educational institution in America,” will entertain here in Jena...

Beckie Doughty was born to Major and Martha Miles Doughty on September 1, 1891. She first married Thomas Earl Coffer, and to this union was born one ...

The LaSalle Parish Healthy Initiatives Coalition gathered on Tuesday, April 23 for their monthly meeting at New Evergreen Baptist Church in Jena. The ...

Increasing violence in schools has prompted lawmakers to propose the “Protect Teachers Act,” a bill that would grant protection from criminal liabilit...