Business First Bancshares CEO Jude Melville and Progressive Bancorp head George Cummings are both second-generation bank CEOs ...

Louisiana Farm Bureau's top young farm woman home schools five children while tending to crops, cattle on a Melville farm.

Baton Rouge-based Business First Bancshares would pad its margin as Louisiana's largest state-chartered bank with an ...

Melville needs to replace its 60-year-old drinking water system. But like many other small Louisiana communities, Melville can’t afford to maintain, much less improve, the aging system that ...

A Louisiana mayor running for re-election died in a car wreck on Election Day. Melville Mayor Velma Hendrix was killed when a driver failed to yield to a stop sign and slammed into her car Tuesday ...

MELVILLE, LA — On Wednesday morning Louisiana’s Legislative Auditor listed 18 towns and villages as fiscally distressed, among them are four inside Acadiana. Washington, Melville, Basile, and ...

The incumbent mayor of a small Louisiana town died in a car crash on Election Day. Melville Mayor Velma Hendrix, 84, was the passenger in a 2008 Acura RDX that was involved in a two-vehicle wreck ...

At 84 years old, Velma Hendrix devoted her time to being the mayor of a small town in Louisiana. It was a job she loved so much that this year, she ran for reelection.

A mayor in Louisiana died on Election Day in a car crash while running for re-election. Velma D. Hendrix, the 84-year-old mayor of Melville, Louisiana, was involved in a two-vehicle crash on ...

Hendrix was elected mayor of Melville, Louisiana, in 2018. KLFY-TV in Lafayette reported Tuesday that Hendrix was running for reelection against challengers Sheila "Sam" Londerno and Caretta ...