PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) - Moving forward, the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival will close earlier in the evenings than it has in recent years. Community leaders and festival organizers came ...

The annual festival was first held in 1981 to honor La Trinidad Valley’s 36.4 hectares of strawberry farms, which have been producing 18 to 22 tons of berries per hectare each year, according to ...

A second victim was wounded in a shooting that shut down the annual Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival Saturday night, authorities confirmed. The packed festival was closed about an hour early ...

PONCHATOULA, La. (WVUE) - The Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival was abruptly shut down Saturday night (April 12) after two people were wounded by gunfire on the festival grounds, the Tangipahoa ...