It’s a crisis that should be met with urgency, commitment, and leadership. Yet our leaders seem unwilling or unable to rise ...

Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill, who is defending the law that GOP Gov. Jeff Landry signed, maintains the Ten ...

Lawmakers folded changes to state spending caps into legislation that would cut taxes and make it harder to pass new tax ...

Hilda Wiltz was sworn in as the 15th Supreme Lady of the Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary. Lafayette has among the ...

For a brief moment, Alberta Davis’s armor breaks as tears well up in her eyes. “Promise that you’ll come see me?” she tells ...

Several contests were decided Tuesday and others will head to a Dec. 7 runoff. Here’s how those races shook out.

Over the last few months, we’ve covered some local topics with national relevance: housing, population shifts and more. All ...

The pool joins four local candidates from the initial search earlier this year. A fifth withdrew his application.

Full reimbursement remains in limbo while Boulet administration seeks federal permits to complete detention pond projects.

After a long delay, the state has reimbursed LCG $6.1 million of the $27 million it is seeking for flood prevention efforts under former M-P Josh Guillory. Splash pad, pavilion, one-mile walking path ...

Baquet will take the seat previously held by Stephanie Armbruster, a religious conservative often near the center of library controversies.