A Monroe woman last seen in Bastrop on Memorial Day is missing, and the Bastrop Police Department are asking for help in finding her.

It’s difficult to imagine the temperature flirting with 130 degrees Fahrenheit. But that’s the kind of heat Lt. Col. Greg Parker and the Louisiana National Guard must endure while serving in Iraq. Parker, 42, is a Gonzales, La., resident and the chief of staff for the 225th Engineer Brigade. He has overseen the expansion of Iraq's Camp Carver over the last few weeks with soldiers from the 46th Engineer Battalion.

When traveling through Louisiana, the majority of land someone sees is used for farming. The Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley including 25 Louisiana parishes has land sitting in wait with nothing but dust and weeds growing. A program coming into its third year wants to change that and allow landowners the opportunity to not farm that land but provide it with the chance to start fresh with a new allotment of hardwood trees.

Born in the village known as Mer Rouge, one woman has accomplished her dream of writing and publishing a novel in California.

State Fire Marshal Butch Browning announced a statewide burn ban due to the extremely dry conditions in Louisiana Tuesday afternoon.

Louisiana is going into the car manufacturing business. The Bayou State is going where no car manufacturer has gone before.

Two students made a discovery on the campus of an elementary school in Anacoco, La., while the auditorium was being demolished. Found nestled inside the building’s cornerstone was a metal box. The box contained a Holy Bible; two copies of the Vernon Parish Democrat newspaper dated Oct. 30, 1924, and Dec. 11, 1924; and a Masonic coin.

Ports all around Louisiana are in dire straits. Funding in many ports is exhausted. “The till is about empty in the ports right now,” said Lynn Hohensee, director of the West Calcasieu Port, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Sulphur Kiwanis Club.

When it comes to the Nwokorie siblings, they aim high. The three siblings simultaneously received the The General Billy Mitchell Award, one of the the Civil Air Patrol’s most prestigious cadet honors.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the death of a Morehouse Parish native during an apparent robbery outside a southeast Houston, Texas home.

The annual opportunity to help the children of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has presented itself again with a new home to be raffled off in June.

A discussion about changing the meal provider at elementary and junior high schools turned into a battle of sides at the Morehouse Parish School Board committee meeting Tuesday night