Lafayette Consolidated Government recently announced the completion of a new emergency preparedness plan. Here’s how it would ...

Assessment scores for students in Lafayette Parish School System were unchanged over the previous year, according to the latest state education data. Across grades 3-12, 43% of students in LPSS ...

Cleveland Chenier (1921-1991), BB King (1925-2015) and Clifton Chenier (1925-1987) performing on an outdoor stage during the 1972 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Cleveland is playing the ...

Sure, people love to come visit Lafayette for Festival International or Mardi Gras. But Lafayette’s culture doesn’t just ...

While optimistic about the overall project, Lafayette’s bike and pedestrian committee members feel as if their priorities and ...

The new law prohibits phone use during driving except for voice calls on hands-free systems, including wrist-worn devices ...

Camden Doherty grew up in Maryland. He attended the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating in 2024 with degrees in both journalism and political science. There he covered local and state ...

The LCG attorney briefed the Parish Council on reduced jail funding. The council will have to approve the cuts in the budget ...

Louisiana’s sound recording tax incentive is set expire at the end of this month after Gov. Jeff Landry vetoed a bill that ...

Lafayette’s music scene lost a bright light in Cajun violinist Chris Stafford, who died at 36. Now, his fellow musicians are ...

The village of Pine Prairie, for example, has a population of 1,490, according to the 2020 Census, although local officials believe the true number to be closer to 1,100 residents and assume detainees ...

The Undercurrent Awards celebrate the folks working to make Lafayette a better place to live. We call them Wavemakers — a ...