Up to 200 Marines are scheduled to deploy to Louisiana, to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at its facilities in the state.

Lafayette’s transit authority struggles to attract and retain enough drivers to keep buses running smoothly. Eliminating ...

Amid a forgery investigation, Construction Director Robert Gautreaux has been demoted to his old job teaching agricultural ...

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 ...

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

LPSS has announced leadership changes amid an investigation into potential fraud within its construction and planning department. Assessment scores for students in Lafayette Parish School System were ...

Journalist and music lover Todd Mouton releases biography on Clifton Chenier after 32 years of research, coinciding with a tribute featuring the Rolling Stones.

Rep. Clay Higgins was among the four members of Congress who voted to approve the federal budget bill Thursday. Photo courtesy the Acadiana Advocate On Thursday, the House narrowly passed the “Big, ...

This story was first reported by Louisiana Illuminator and republished with permission. Performance indicators released Friday show Louisiana’s economy shrank by 1.7% over the first few months of 2025 ...

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

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