St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune

The Franklin Banner-Tribune (published as the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune) is a bi-weekly newspaper circulating in Franklin, the parish seat of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

Its lineage traces to The St. Mary Banner, founded April 15, 1889 by soon-to-be Louisiana Governor Murphy J. Foster Sr. and Senator Donelson Caffery, itself a successor to the 19th-century Planter's Banner and Attakapas Register. The Banner merged with the short-lived Franklin Tribune at the close of 1931 to form the Banner-Tribune. From 1950 to 1965 the paper was edited by Robert Angers, who expanded it to a daily before later founding Acadiana Profile magazine. Louisiana State Newspapers, a Lafayette-based chain founded by Braxton "B.I." Moody III, purchased the Banner-Tribune along with other St. Mary Parish titles from the Shirley family in 2010.

The paper covers Franklin and St. Mary Parish government, schools, and community news, with a digitized archive spanning more than 180,000 pages back to 1931.

The paper is published in print and online at stmarynow.com alongside its sister publication, the Morgan City Daily Review.