For the 23rd consecutive year, the LaSalle Parish School Board has been awarded the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) “excellence in financial reporting” award. ASBO International’s COE recognizes districts that have met the program’s high standards for financial reportin...

A Mother’s Day traffic fatality occurred in Jena Sunday, May 9, claiming the life of a Urania woman. Paula Baldridge, 61, of Urania, was pronounced dead following a single vehicle crash that occurred on LA 127 in north Jena near Robert Street. The 911 call reporting the accident was logged in at 7:3...

Drax Group, world-leading sustainable biomass production and supply company, will begin constructing the first of three new “satellite” pellet plants in Arkansas, the company has announced. Drax Group operates a pellet plant at Urania. The three plants are together expected to produce around 120,000...

Honor graduates from both high schools in the parish will lead in commencement exercises on May 13 and 14 respectively at each of the schools. Graduat...

Mike McGuffee with JCP Management informed Tullos Mayor Karla Cockerham and the Town Council at their regular meeting last week that after an official...

When you are young you have no instincts. Someone tells you to do something, so that’s what you do. As you get older instincts manifest themselves int...