Category Archives: Local News

The National Hurricane Center said it is too early to determine what impact the tropical storm will have on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

Emily Dowdle, 11, attends Catawba Elementary School and has not been seen since about 2:40  p.m.

Three years after a fatal car crash that left two women dead and a young boy paralyzed, the family of the victims is looking beyond the at fault driver to a tech company.Kim Meador and her son Sammy

On a personal quest to settle Mars, SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to the red planet well within the next century, “Battlestar Galactica” style.

Last year, Claudette Cook and her husband decided to start a family, but they knew they’d have to deal with a few bumps in the road. Last fall, they saw an IVF specialist who gave her the go-ahead.

After riding through several parts of the country for the past seven years, the Miracle Riders will once again get on their motorcycles to help children in the valley area. 

With the passionate race to the White House stirring opinions from many, Columbus elections administrators say thousands are registering to vote in this important election.

Twenty-one teachers from five area schools participated in training on Tuesday to learn about empowering parents and finding alternatives to traditional student discipline.  

A West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputy is among the three people who died in a triple shooting in Pointe Coupee Parish. 

Scientists say the first baby has been born from a controversial new technique that combines DNA from three people – the mother, the father and an egg donor.