5+ hour, 7+ min ago  (581+ words) BATON ROUGE " The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 3-4 Wednesday against advancing a Democratic bill that would establish a "Louisiana Voting Rights Act." The bill's author, Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, and two other Democratic senators voted to move the…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago  (282+ words) An Alexandria man was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced charge in the March 2022 shooting death of a 24-year-old man. And, on Thursday, a former Lecompte Police Department chief accused of taking evidence…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (334+ words) Louisiana's poorest workers will have to go at least another year without their employers being required to increase their pay after lawmakers killed a bill to establish a state minimum wage higher than the federal minimum of $7. 25 per hour. House…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (948+ words) BATON ROUGE " An amendment that would allow parishes to increase the homestead exemption failed 9-5 in a House committee hearing Tuesday while a Senate committee heard but deferred two similar homestead-exemption amendments. The House Ways and Means Committee did not advance…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (91+ words) The Town Talk Rapides schools staffing for 2026-27 year approved unanimously The Rapides Parish School Board unanimously approved staffing for the 2026-27 academic year at its regular meeting Tuesday. The number of teachers increased by two from what was presented in March…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (206+ words) A Bourg native has 24 seconds to win more than $50, 000 in New Orleans this weekend. Professional Bull Rider Dustin Boquet is gearing up to compete in the Hondo Rodeo Fest on April 10, 11 and 12 at the Caesar's Superdome. The event is invitation…...

19+ hour, 55+ min ago  (228+ words) Louisiana state Sen. Jay Morris and his family received a death threat connected to his legislation that would consolidate judges and clerks in New Orleans with an arrest made in the case. Morris, a Republican from Monroe, said the threat…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (450+ words) Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker said construction on Buc-ee's first Louisiana store is "rocking and rolling" with a partial slab already in place, fuel tanks buried and the first walls to be raised this month. "They're moving fast," Walker said April…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (221+ words) The Southern Research Station in Pineville is closing as the USDA consolidates US Forest Service research operations. Pineville's Southern Research Station closing in USDA consolidation - The USDA is closing 57 U. S. Forest Service research facilities, including the Southern Research Station in Pineville....

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (20+ words) The Town Talk Pineville church prays Social Justice Stations of the Cross...