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BREAKING: Pitkin woman arrested on multiple counts of arson related to Rapides, Vernon wildfire
Forestry agents have arrested a Pitkin woman for setting multiple fires in Rapides Parish that made their way ...
Forestry agents have arrested a Pitkin woman for setting multiple fires in Rapides Parish that made their way ...
Investigators with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Forestry Enforcement Division have determined that many of the ...
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced a $4.9 million grant ...
Watch as Fairview Elementary fourth-grade ]teacher Lillian Knisely is notified she is this week’s Benoit Motors Teacher of ...
By Emily Burleigh Fourth-grade math and science teacher Lillian Knisely, 34, has a love for her students that ...
By Emily Burleigh The values that guided those during the events of Sept. 11, 2001, live on through ...
By Olivia McClure WESTPORT— In west-central Louisiana, where wildfires have ravaged thousands of acres of drought-stricken forests in ...
The following menus for Sept. 11-15 for Vernon Parish schools have been submitted by supervisors of food services. ...
By Emily Burleigh With the help of a $55,000 grant, Leesville Main Street is becoming a historic business ...
Watch as W.T. Henning Elementary fifth-grader teacher Leslie Mire McFarland is notified she is this week’s Benoit Motors ...
By Emily Burleigh Leslie Mire McFarland, 47, emulates the teacher who inspired her to become an educator. She ...
By Emily Burleigh The globe-trotting exhibition “Four Artists from the Neutral Strip” is returning home to Leesville this ...
By Emily Burleigh Firefighters with the Southern Area Red incident Management team are still working to extinguish four ...
By Emily Burleigh The Tiger Island Fire was caused by arson, said state officials have confirmed. The Louisiana ...
Voluntary evacuations remain in place for the Junction community, north of Merryville, as firefighters spent their Labor Day ...
Special to the News Leader NEW ORLEANS – Since Louisiana National Guard aviation assets began water-drop missions on August ...
By Keith Morrow / Fort Johnson Air Officer Aug. 16 may be just another day to some, but to a ...
By Emily Burleigh The Tiger Island Fire — located east of Merryville — is burning in pine plantations ...
By Emily Burleigh Families and individuals on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that have been affected by ...
Gov. John Bel Edwards conducted a flyover of wildfire damage in Sabine and Vernon parishes Saturday afternoon, thanking ...
By Emily Burleigh Later this month, Vernon Parish residents will have the opportunity to get clarity on upcoming ...
Seven hundred and twenty-seven undergraduate students were named to the spring 2023 dean’s list at Northwestern State University. ...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area in the Gulf of Mexico and two other areas in ...
A slight bit of rest is in store for a heat-weary Southwest Louisiana as a weak cold front ...
Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft, Assessor Michael Bealer and Coroner Shawn Granger, all Republicans, ran unopposed for re-election. ...