The holiday season officially arrived in Simmesport on Sunday, Dec. 7, as families lined the streets for the annual RISE ...

Simmesport welcomed the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern (CPKC) Holiday Train on Dec. 3 at the North Live Oak crossing ...

An Avoyelles Parish woman is in a Rapides Parish jail Thursday evening after allegedly forcing her way inside a home, firing a gun and later carjacking two drivers, according to police. Simmesport ...

Simmesport will submit to fiscal administration after failing to address issues in its annual audits going back as far as 2007. The mayor of Simmesport, Leslie Draper III, announced Tuesday that the ...

SIMMESPORT, La. (KALB) - Residents of Simmesport are voicing growing frustration over persistent water service problems that have disrupted daily life for weeks. The town is dealing with multiple ...

The conviction and sentence of a Simmesport man in the case of a missing woman both were vacated earlier this month by the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal. Chadwick McGhee was convicted in July 2014 of ...

SIMMESPORT, La. (KALB) - In the Town of Simmesport, one resident has expressed that his water bill has gotten too expensive, and he’s not alone. Marcus Alexander said the cost of water is putting a ...

Simmesport is a town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, with a population of 1,727. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single ...

SIMMESPORT, La. (WNTZ) – On July 11, 2024, the Simmesport Police Department (SPD) requested the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations/Alexandria Field Office (LSP AFO) to investigate a ...

Community rallied to save Rex the dog trapped on icy Ontario lake ...