By: TONY MARKS Editor ...

Richard Fontenot, a fourth-generation rice, soybean and crawfish farmer from Ville Platte, will serve a second term as ...

Tony Marks, editor of the Ville Platte Gazette and sports editor of The Oakdale Journal, earned three awards in the 2024 ...

June 27 - July 3rd from 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.; and on July 4 from 9 a.m. - 1 a.m.

Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy has ...

Chief A. Perry Thomas reports the Ville Platte Police Department is currently investigating a shooting which occurred on the ...

By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor ...

MAMOU – Louisiana State Police Troop I troopers were notified shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday of a two-vehicle hit-and run ...

Competed at LSU from 2003-06, graduating as the school’s most decorated gymnast and still ranking nearly two decades later among the elite in the program’ ...

By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor The Ville Platte Rotary Club welcomed its new slate of officers for the club’s 2025-2026 ...

By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance ...