Under a new agreement with Immigration and Customs enforcement, Lafayette sheriff’s deputies are empowered to enforce federal ...

Louisiana’s existing congressional districts will be used for the 2026 midterms, after the U.S. Supreme Court did not ...

Lafayette Consolidated Government on Monday afternoon announced the hiring of former Parish Councilman Kevin Naquin as ...

This year, The Current uncovered potential fraud in the public school system, interrogated Lafayette’s sprawl, and looked at the local effects of new federal policies.

Lafayette’s councils are off to a slow start coming out of the holiday season, with an agenda made up of some funding ...

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 ...

Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, helped lead an effort to reduce funding in the state budget for a new private education voucher program that Gov. Jeff Landry has pushed. Photo by Wes ...

Tasha Welch, 30, cradles her 3-year-old son Amir. Photo by Alena Maschke Tasha Welch balances on a ball chair in her living room, gently rocking herself back and forth. The 30-year-old is pregnant ...

Pummeled repeatedly by natural disasters, most recently Hurricane Ida, residents in Lafourche Parish struggle with mental health and addiction, at a time when population loss and social changes mean ...

Lafayette was left for dead in the mid-1980s. The oil industry collapsed, and we turned to music to dig us out of the funk. The era when folks went from believing to “be leaving” Lafayette also saw ...

In late February of 2022, Rigid Constructors loaded barges into the Vermilion River, blocking navigation, to remove spoil bank levees on land LCG partially purchased in St. Martin Parish. The dirt was ...

Many of Youngsville’s city residents, four days into a historic weather event, now find themselves under a water boil advisory, with LCG setting up water stations to supply the impacted areas. Boil ...