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 ...

Assessment scores for students in Lafayette Parish School System were unchanged over the previous year, according to the latest state education data. Across grades 3-12, 43% of students in LPSS ...

Cleveland Chenier (1921-1991), BB King (1925-2015) and Clifton Chenier (1925-1987) performing on an outdoor stage during the 1972 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Cleveland is playing the ...

On Thursday, the House narrowly passed the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” a Trump agenda bill laying out changes to the federal budget that include major cuts to federal programs supporting healthcare, food ...

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 ...

The new law prohibits phone use during driving except for voice calls on hands-free systems, including wrist-worn devices ...

Downtown Rising is back Sept. 28 at Parc International in Downtown Lafayette with an all-star lineup headlined by reggae legends, The Wailers. Check out this lineup! The Wailers Keith Frank DJ Digital ...

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 class of Wavemakers, the local heroes honored each year at the Undercurrent Awards.