After a lengthy discussion, the Concordia Parish School Board voted unanimously to set graduation dates for the week of July 13-17 for four high schools including Concordia Parish Academy, Ferriday High, Monterey High and Vidalia High.

The Concordia Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP) announced a new confirmed COVID-19 case for the parish on Sunday, May 24.

The Vidalia Board of Aldermen will consider Mayor Buz Craft’s proposed $34.1 million 2020-2021 fiscal year budget during a special meeting Thursday at 6 p.m.

The Concordia Parish Police Jury hopes to know soon whether it qualifies for $2.5 million in federal and state grant monies for the Brushy Bayou drainage project.

Concordia Dixie Youth Baseball and Miss-Lou Soccer President Mike Bowlin was sitting around with wife, Kim, wondering when they would be able to hit the fields again.

Rep. C. Travis Johnson of Vidalia announced this week that funding has been awarded for several governmental entities in District 21.

The Clayton Town Council will soon meet to introduce and discuss the village’s 2020-21 fiscal year budget, according to Mayor Josephine Washington.

The Ferriday Town Council asked its attorney to review a new ordinance concerning the destruction of condemned houses before proceeding.

Seventh Judicial Court officials in Concordia and Catahoula officials completed plans Monday to return to an amended court schedule in the courtrooms in Vidalia and Harrisonburg next week.

The Concordia Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP) received reports of three new COVID-19 cases on May 8, upping the total to 62.

The Concordia Parish School Board agreed Thursday (May 7) to retroactively pay approximately 20 employees whose services have been required during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ridgecrest residents with past due utility bills have until May 25 to catch up or face services being cut off.

The Vidalia Board of Aldermen voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize Mayor Buz Craft to file an application and process paperwork concerning the partial transfer of the license for the operation of the Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station.

THIS OMINOUS cloud near Clayton photographed last week looks like a tornado, but according to David Cox with National Weather Service in Jackson, Miss., it was likely “a shelf cloud” with straight line winds located “near three miles northeast of Clayton when the resident saw it from Lee Bay…

Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will lift the stay-at-home order on Friday, allowing the state to advance to Phase One of President Trump's Opening Up America Again plan.

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a family affair for Gov. John Bel Edwards.

With only a week left of Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ current stay-at-home order, a Louisiana House committee debated for more than five hours a bill by Rep. Blake Miguez (R-Erath) over whether to strip certain emergency powers from Edwards and reopen businesses immediately.

Farmers have been busy of late planting and fertilizing crops, County Agent Dennis Burns said this week.

While work is underway to complete renovation of the parish courtroom in Vidalia, the district attorney and the two judges for the Seventh Judicial District met Tuesday to discuss the work and the future of court proceedings.

The Town of Ferriday received a $35,000 LGAP grant to tear down condemned houses in Ferriday.

Longtime Concordia Parish educator Neeva Sibley died April 30 at University Medical Center in Jackson, Ms.

Concordia Parish businesses are doing their best to cope with the coronavirus.

Relief is coming to Ridgecrest residents in the form of a $990,352 Louisiana Community Development Block Grant (LCDBG), according to a letter from Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday.

Sales tax receipts for the Concordia Parish Police Jury were down $47,000 -- 23 percent – for March 2020, according to a report provided by Jury Secretary-Treasurer Sandi Burley.

Riverland Medical Center is requesting a credit line of $1.9 million for payroll through a new government program.

Louisiana's stay-at-home order and social distancing restrictions, including a 10-person limit on public gatherings, will be extended until May 15, Gov. John Bel Edwards says.

The Ferriday mayor and board of alderman held their first meeting ever by teleconference on Thursday (April 16) during which they discussed whether disinfectant could be sprayed throughout town to protect against the coronavirus.

The Concordia Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) reported one new Covid-19 case on Sunday, April 19, and another on Monday.

Ridgecrest residents are once again dealing with brown-tinted water, while Clayton has received a grant.

If the state of Louisiana does not keep social distancing restrictions in place through May, the state's residents could suffer from a second wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths, a top state health official who reportedly communicates regularly with Gov. John Bel Edwards says.