On September 17, 2025, Bastrop High School was placed on a lockdown due to a report that a firearm was on campus. Officials have confirmed that the report was ...

A Louisiana man who worked as a labor and delivery nurse is out of a job after he was accused of striking his own 5-month-old ...

Morehouse Parish is mourning the loss of one of its legendary athletes and retired Captain of the Bastrop Police Department, ...

Ollie’s opened this week in Bastrop. Shoppers are saying that are glad they have a discount store in their area. “The closest Ollie’s to us is in Monroe, so that’s a tank of gas there and back,” Mandi ...

Seniors from across Northeast Louisiana laced up their shoes for a day of fun, fitness, and fellowship at the Paramount Health Care Consultants Senior Olympics.

When we talk about “literacy,” most people think about reading and writing. However, there is another kind of literacy that plays an important role in our everyday lives: water literacy. Water ...

The Bastrop City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution delaying the sale of a $20 million bond that is funding the Old Iron Bridge repairs and various parks and recreation projects, including a par-3 ...

A woman told jurors she thought she was going to die after a masked man abducted her and forced her to drive to a location ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

Matt Reid, a Benton County deputy public defender, told the judge the local office may have encounter a conflict in ...

Four longtime south Louisiana companies have been acquired in the past three months, all by out-of-state private equity firms, raising alarms among civic leaders about the loss of corporate ...

With the fall season nearing, many are anticipating the time when leaves begin to turn shades of red, yellow and orange. In Louisiana, leaves are expected to begin changing colors in late October, ...