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 ...

By: TONY MARKS Editor ...

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 ...

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

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

The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville ...

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

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

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’ ...