BATON ROUGE— The Senate voted 29-0 Thursday to require public schools to create and develop a literary assessment for every K-3 student. “Every child should be reading before they leave the third grade,” said Sen. Sharon Hewitt, R-Slidell, the bill’s author. “Not just 50% of them, as we learned when...

Members of the LaSalle Parish School Board along with Superintendent Janet Tullos were in a celebratory mood during the board’s regular May meeting held Monday night of last week. With the Jena Lady Giants and LaSalle Lady Tigers claiming state softball championships in their respective division tw...

The following were booked into the LaSalle Parish Jail in Jena during the past week: Wetzel N. Tomlinson, 19, of Tullos, was arrested April 30 by Tullos police and charged with driving under suspension and no proof of insurance. Dustin H. Nugent, 38, of Jonesville, was arrested April 30 by sheriff o...

LaSalle Parish will join thousands of parishes, counties, and municipalities across the nation Thursday, May 6, as the National Day of Prayer is obser...

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 a...

All four LaSalle Parish baseball and softball teams have won a spot in the state playoffs this year. The semi-final softball games have been set for t...