Bossier Press-Tribune

The Bossier Press-Tribune is a newspaper serving Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana, covering mostly local news with regional, state, and national coverage when warranted.

Its origins trace to the weekly Bossier Tribune, begun in June 1940 in competition with the Planters Press, a Bossier City paper started in 1928. T.L. Morris sold the Bossier Tribune to Larry Freeman in 1945. In the late 1970s, the Bossier Tribune and the Planters Press merged to become the Bossier Press-Tribune. In the 1990s, then-owner Robert E. "Bob" Barton, who also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2000, purchased the 131-year-old Bossier Banner-Progress weekly, serving the parish seat of Benton, from Wilton Corley.

The paper covers Bossier Parish government, schools, and community news, including coverage of Barksdale Air Force Base and Bossier City and Benton local government.

The Press-Tribune is published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons and is available in print and online at bossierpress.com.