Livingston News

Louisiana won't require a random sample of welfare recipients to submit to drug tests, after a Senate committee refused to support the idea.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7017 will hold at Memorial Day service 10 a.m. Monday at Evergreen Memorial Park located behind Seale Funeral Home, 1720 S. Range Ave, Denham Springs.

About a month ago, I attended a school field trip with my niece and her class. We traveled by bus to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Livingston, Louisiana .

That raging fraternity house fire just six days ago in the Ark-La-Tex is already leading to big changes at college campuses in northwest Louisiana.

Sales tax collections in Livingston Parish were higher than those of any previous April on record, the latest report shows.

Outdoor goods retailer Cabela's opened for business in Gonzales in late 2007 just ahead of competitor Bass Pro Shops in Denham Springs after both won protracted court battles over the incentives local governments used to lure them.

The Livingston Parish school system has declared financial exigency for a second consecutive year - and the second time in parish history.

LIVINGSTON: A new tax could be used for mosquito-control in Livingston Parish since a lot of people don't pay the current fee.

Today the House Education committee will hear a bill concerning the tragic shooting deaths of two Louisiana Department of Insurance investigators in Ville Platte in 2011.

A House health care committee moved ahead with a proposal that would mandate drug testing of welfare recipients, despite objections from Catholic leaders who said the bill raises moral issues by vilifying poor mothers.

One year after Tangipahoa Parish voters overwhelmingly rejected four tax proposals that were part of the school system's court-ordered desegregation plan, school administrators are once again floating the idea of holding a parishwide property tax election.

The Louisiana Federation of Teachers has asked the Livingston Parish School System to rescind the furloughs of 3,600 teachers and support staff this school year.