About two and a half years after it was first announced, work has begun on the latest expansion to Louisiana Tech University’s Enterprise Campus: Tech Pointe II.
Local college athletes teamed together with the community Sunday to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. For one local business, teaming with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs is routine.
Candidate qualifying for the Nov. 8 primary begins in three weeks, but so far only a few of the 47 local officials who are up for reelection have indicated what they’re going to do.
Ruston’s own Kyle Williams, who played football for the Ruston High Bearcats before going on to great careers at LSU and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, was inducted into the 2022 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame class at a ceremony Saturday night in Natchitoches.
The owners of Northern Louisiana Medical Center had hoped to soon qualify for millions of dollars in additional Medicaid reimbursement funds, but a legislative veto by Gov. John Bel Edwards this week appears to have shut the door on that plan.
The executive director of a Ruston crisis pregnancy center said Friday she expects the demand for her organization’s services to increase “exponentially” in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Vince Vinson ( Retired Command Master Chief of the U.S. Naval Submarine Forces and his mother, Marie Vinson (right), former residents of Simsboro, were in Brunswick, Georgia, over the weekend for the wedding of Vince’s daughter, Haley Morgan Vinson.
In May, eight students were inducted into the French Honor Society at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts (LSMSA) in Natchitoches, including Ruston’s Anh Pham (top row, left).