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

Downtown Rising is back Sept. 28 at Parc International in Downtown Lafayette with an all-star lineup headlined by reggae legends, The Wailers. Check out this lineup! The Wailers Keith Frank DJ Digital ...

Taj Johnson: My name is Taj Johnson. There’s a lot about Lafayette that it’s a duality. It’s a beautiful place because I’m from Upper Lafayette, and then I hear people talk about all the opportunity ...

Lauren Leonpacher: My name is Lauren Leonpacher, and I’m 30 years old. I probably would have never left Youngsville or Lafayette had it not been for access to affordable property, housing and flooding ...

Many rural Louisianans who were promised access to fiber internet may be out of luck. Recent changes to the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program, originally set to grant Louisiana $1 ...

Hanging on a gallery wall drenched in candy apple red, “Woman In Tignon” holds court, surrounded by a collage of portraits from the Hilliard Art Museum’s permanent collection. The 1844 oil on canvas ...

A founding editor of both The Independent and ABiz and senior editor at The Times of Acadiana in the 1990s, Leslie Turk is an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked in the newspaper ...

To win Lafayette City Councilmember Andy Naquin’s vote to swap a few miles of Ambassador Caffery with the state for a few miles of Johnston and Bertrand, Mayor-President Monique Boulet had to commit ...

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced that a federal investigation was underway regarding a contractor for Lafayette Consolidated Government using workers who were in the country ...

Construction, Facilities and Maintenance Director Robert Gautreaux defended the system’s practices in March but now says LPSS will overhaul the process for how projects are procured and awarded. The ...

A founding editor of both The Independent and ABiz and senior editor at The Times of Acadiana in the 1990s, Leslie Turk is an award-winning investigative reporter who has worked in the newspaper ...

In the archives of the Center for Louisiana Studies, a weathered banner hangs with quiet dignity — its fabric frayed, its message undimmed. Against a field of bayou blue, a green live oak spreads its ...