For years, women said a Crowley doctor groped them — prosecutors refused to pursue charges ...

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 ...

An unforeseen challenge to this push has been the city’s new short-term rental ban attached to single-family neighborhoods, the most prevalent — and most restrictive — form of residential zoning in ...

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 ...

State Rep. Brach Myers, R-Lafayette, and Broussard Councilman Jesse Regan, also a Republican, have said they will run.

State Rep. Brach Myers, R-Lafayette, and Broussard Councilman Jesse Regan, also a Republican, have said they will run.

Louisiana will hold a special election Feb. 15 for open state Senate seats in Baton Rouge and Lafayette. A runoff, if needed, will be held March 29, on the same ballot as Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposed ...

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 ...

Local economic growth has ticked up post-Covid and outpaced the U.S. in 2023, according to latest federal data. As significant as the changes are, they don’t feel big enough relative to the scale of ...

Property facing W. Congress Street where it intersects with Evangeline Drive would become a mixed-used neighborhood without convenience stores.