Louisiana State Sen. Mike Reese officially stepped into his role as the ninth president of McNeese State University on July 1 ...

The Jennings City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with condemnation and demolition proceedings for the former James ...

It didn’t take long for the first bomb shell to drop at Southeastern Conference Media Days Monday in Tampa. Maybe it was just a smokescreen, perhaps just an idle threat. But SEC commissioner Greg ...

U.S. gas prices jumped back to $4 a gallon on average Monday, as Washington’s latest fighting with Iran renews strain on the flow of fuel worldwide. According to motor club AAA, the national average ...

Sandra Desadier Fournet passed away peacefully on July 18, 2026, at the age of 75, after a courageous battle with cancer. Born on Mar. 15, 1951, in Natchitoches, La., Sandy dedicated her life to ...

Life in Southwest Louisiana is better when the Cowboys are winning football games. The food tastes better, the fall sun doesn’t seem so hot, and there is a step in the stride of McNeese State fans ...

Somebody needs to come to Tampa and wake up Southeastern Conference Media Days. Like, quick. Really quick. The whole affair is getting entirely too bogged down in depth charts and replacements for ...

Louisiana will begin enforcing a series of new artificial intelligence laws Aug. 1 that expand criminal penalties for AI-generated sexual images, require disclosures on certain political ...

Ole Miss coach Pete Golding just made things even tougher, if that’s possible, on LSU and Lane Kiffin. Or maybe Golding’s first appearance at Southeastern Conference Media Days in Tampa was just the ...

A Jennings woman was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder after allegedly stabbing a man multiple times during the early morning hours Thursday, authorities said. The victim ...

John Nicholas Green, 81, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 17, 2026. He was born on Mar. 5, 1945, in Barberton, Ohio, to Betty Blosser and Bert Green. John owned and operated Family Tire for more ...

The 39th annual Cajun Music and Food Festival will be held Saturday at the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles. The festival, hosted by the Cajun French Music Association of Louisiana’s Lake Charles ...