Some 100 men from LaSalle Parish and neighboring parishes attended the 2026 Man Up event at the Jena Community Center Thursday night, March 19. Sponsored by Midway Baptist Church, the men enjoyed a delicious meal followed by singing led by Daniel Breithaupt and Lewis Evans. Man Up was started over f...

A bill to expand Louisiana’s high-dosage tutoring program advanced in a Senate committee last week even as a broader debate is shaping up over state funding for K-12 education. The action took place during the current Legislative Session. Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Mandeville, proposed spending an addit...

Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said a federal data program that verifies citizenship status uncovered 403 noncitizens registered to vote in Louisiana out of a total voting pool of 2.96 million, with 83 having voted in at least one election since the 1980s. The state used the federal Syste...

Each month, Jena High School teachers and administration select one male and one female student from each grade that exhibit exemplary character on ca...

Jena Rodeo & other events this week Spring is certainly in the air and LaSalle Parish has a busy schedule of events heading into the weekend including...

A multi-jurisdiction investigation, led by the Jena Police Department and the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office resulted in the arrest of one individual...