Mayor-President Monique Boulet has appointed a public works director, filling her last department head position with Warren ...

Response to this week’s extremely cold weather marks the first deployment of LCG’s new emergency preparedness plan.

Lafayette’s warming shelter, open since Sunday night due to freezing temperatures, closed this morning due to rising ...

Friends and family gathered bid farewell to Bech, who was fatally injured in a terrorist attack in New Orleans in the early ...

A planned cooperative endeavor agreement between the parish and state will fund an estimated $4.15 million in park improvements.

The rezonings are aimed at offering more housing options in the respective zones while getting the existing structures to ...

Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below: $4 million FEMA grant for flood relief. The ...

A new multi-family development is under construction on the corner of Congress and Emerite streets. To add more housing options like this, LCG is looking to diversify its zoning regulations away from ...

Bethany Cooney-Palmer sits on the porch of her home in Scott, La., on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. After an appointment in May 2022, Bethany Cooney-Palmer left the offices of Crowley surgeon Dr.

The Acadiana Advocate looks back on the lives lost in 2024, including the musicians, foodies, artists, business owners and civic leaders so integral to the place we all call home. “When we lose people ...

Every December I open my stocking for statistical goodies from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the federal agency that measures economic performance. That’s when the agency drops county-level real ...