Delta News

Virtually every municipality in northeastern Louisiana has lost population since 2000, according to a report released this month from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Madame C.J. Walker saw an opportunity where few others did, and she seized it, bringing to market a line of hair care products and scalp conditioners for African-American women.

BATON ROUGE - A new state law seeks to curb a growing trend of small communities annexing property along interstate highways and padding their budgets by posting police cars to catch speeders.

After it was pieced together just after the turn of the 20th century, U.S. 80 in northeastern Louisiana was part of the great Dixie Overland Highway that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

A 'rising star' in two-year education, Dr. Monty Sullivan, has returned to his proper constellation, the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, where he should again make an important impact in our people's lives.

Monty Sullivan, an Oak Grove native and one of the founding employees of Louisiana Delta Community College in 2001, was approved as the new executive vice president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College system by the system board of supervisors Wednesday.

USGS National Wetlands Research Center Director Greg Smith knows science can't serve in a vacuum, that knowledge is best when put to practical use.

After battling winds and heavy swells in April and most of May, you'd think we'd welcome those light, 5-10 knot winds anytime.

Each time the floodwaters from the Mississippi River receded to their banks, they left behind a rich delta silt in the parishes of East Carroll, Madison and Tensas.

Cruz'n the Delta will parade through the streets of Monroe and West Monroe on its way to the Monroe Motor Speedway beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday.

Several projects in northeastern Louisiana are vying for millions in federal economic stimulus funding in an effort to retain and gain jobs in the region.

Coastal residents will have an opportunity this week to help guide a hurricane protection and coastal restoration plan for southwestern Louisiana.

In light of increased complaints and a recent death, the St. Landry Parish Council is expected begin work on a revision of its trail ride ordinance in the near future.

New Iberia resident Delta Russo won a $107,961 jackpot at Cypress Bayou Casino on Wednesday.

The Port of New Orleans is in a virtual war with neighborhood groups and preservationists in the Faubourg Marigny over the conversion of two old wharves into a frozen chicken-packing plant.

Fred and Jill Korn of Monroe are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Susanne Korn, to Richard Nathan Jones, son of Janet Jones and the late Duncan Jones of Newellton.

The St. John the Baptist Parish Council gave administrators the go-ahead to apply for a grant to help cover repairs at the troubled Edgard water-treatment plant.

The state and its federal coastal-restoration partners should draft a plan by the end of 2010 for building several major diversions of water and sediment from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers, the ...

What do you do when you're a 52-year-old grandmother rearing your 8-year-old granddaughter and your monthly income is $497? If you live in Delta Baptist Association, you go to Delta Storefront Ministries, where ...

Virtually every area of northeastern Louisiana continues to lose population, according to recently released reports from the U.S. Census Bureau.