BATON ROUGE—A House committee advanced a bill Thursday to extend the time to prepare and verify absentee ballots prior to election day. It also advanced a bill that may soon allow your teenager to accompany you in the voting booth. Both bills were written by Rep. Lance Harris, R-Alexandria. The bill...

Olla Mayor Rhonda Elliott announced at the Council’s regular April meeting held Monday night of last week that the town now has the $1-million in funding for upgrading the town’s water system. The town received the 2020-2021 LCDBG (Louisiana Community Development Block Grant) funding for $957,100, ...