The Ouachita Citizen is a weekly newspaper published in West Monroe, Louisiana.
Since 1996, the Ouachita Citizen has been part of Sam Hanna Newspapers, a family-owned cluster including the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday and Vidalia, Louisiana, and the Franklin Sun in Winnsboro.
The Sam Hanna family has long been active in the Louisiana Press Association.
[2] In the spring of 2014, the Ouachita Citizen became the source of a national news story when a video was anonymously left with the newspaper.
The video, which went viral once released by the Ouachita Citizen, allegedly showed United States Representative Vance McAllister (R – Swartz) in a controversial kissing embrace with a member of his congressional staff, both of them being married to others.