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In 2024, providers in Ringgold billed Medicaid $108,818 for alcohol and drug abuse treatment services—an increase of 67.9% over the prior year.

Chatham Medicaid providers submitted $936,916 in claims for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services in 2024, representing a 1.4% rise compared with the prior year.

In 2024, Springhill Medicaid providers charged $90,769 for Pathology and Laboratory Procedures, a 2.1% uptick from the prior year.

In 2024, Medicaid providers in Ruston billed $2,376,232 for Medicine Services and Procedures, a 4.4% increase from the prior year.

In 2024, Athens Medicaid providers charged $1,057,525 for Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) services—a 2.9% rise from the prior year.

In 2024, Springhill Medicaid payments for COVID-specific HCPCS code services totaled at least $17,640, making up less than 0.1% of the city’s overall Medicaid claims that year.

FOIA Request to Louisiana Tech University regarding recent course syllabi on August 6, 2025.

FOIA Request to Grambling State University regarding recent course syllabi on August 6, 2025.

Of the 8 H-1B petitions filed by employers classified under the Educational Services industry located across NW Louisiana News publication area seven were approved in 2024, as per data provided…

In 2024, 100% of H-1B petitions filed by Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services employers across NW Louisiana News publication area were approved, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and…

February 13, 2023 – A $2.2 grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will help more than 1,000 Grambling State University students receive improved on-campus broadband services.

Louisiana Tech University will celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a program from noon to 2 p.m.

As a part of their 2022 pledge class project, the brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) have donated to the “Play it Forward” campaign for A.E. Phillips Laboratory School’s (AEP)…

We are thrilled to bring back the Ruston-Lincoln Christmas Parade for 2022, so let’s celebrate all things Christmas.

Reigning Miss Louisiana 2022 Gracie Reichman, who served as Miss Louisiana Tech in 2020 and 2021, competes for the job of Miss America beginning with preliminary competition Monday and Tuesday,…

Louisiana National Bank invites you to come join us at our Christmas Open House!

The Lincoln Parish Police Jury is a 12-member body of elected officials that is the governing authority for Lincoln Parish.

Imagine yourself on a football field at halftime in front of 70,000 people at the Superdome with millions of viewers watching via television, moments before being cued to play a…

Bailey Grace Jennings, a second-year graduate student in Louisiana Tech’s Speech-Language Pathology program, recently presented her research at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) national convention in New Orleans.

The Lincoln Parish School Board meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Parish Central Office at 410 S. Farmerville Street in Ruston.

Learn about the latest scams & schemes targeting Webster Parish Residents.

Longtime community service enthusiast and Louisiana Tech University alumna Rosemary “Toni” Wurster Chandler Turner of Dallas shared in her address to Fall 2022 graduates the ways in which her Tech education taught valuable…

The College of Applied and Natural Science (ANS) hosted the Louisiana Tech University Graduate School 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) for graduate students to present their research.

The Louisiana Art and Science Museum (LASM) will host Art After Hours: Illustrating Health from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in the Second Floor Main Gallery.