Lafayette Parish will hold a special election on Saturday, February 15, for the District 23 Senate seat, followed by municipal elections on March 29. Nearly 90,000 voters in Senate District 23 seat—including residents of Lafayette Parish, Broussard, Scott, and Youngsville—are eligible to vote in the special election.

The search for Lafayette’s next police chief is heating up. Four candidates remain, and a final decision is coming soon. Who will lead the LPD next?

The king cake is the first of its kind and is mash-up from a south Louisiana bakery and a Tennessee cannabis company run by a Lafayette native.

The Lafayette area’s median rent of $982 dropped 0.4% from a year ago and was the only state metro reporting a drop out of six surveyed.

A Lafayette jury convicted Kerry Duane Chaisson of Aggravated Flight from an officer which stemmed from a 2023 Armed Robbery and Carjacking in Lafayette. In August of 2023, a Lafayette Parish Sheriff patrol deputy located the defendant driving the stolen vehicle on Fieldspan Road near Duson,

The storm blanketed south Louisiana with 4 to 8 inches of snow, with a few areas experiencing up to 12 inches. Temperatures reached as low as the single digits.

Segus, who had recently passed the state police exam, had dreamed of becoming a state trooper but died before he could complete his training.

The median home in Lafayette Parish listed for $298,250 in December, down 0.6% from the previous month's $299,999, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. Compared to December 2023, the median home list price increased 2.9% from $289,999.

Cook 1-3 2-2 4, El Moutaouakkil 4-10 0-0 8, Garnett 5-11 2-2 15, Hardy 0-0 2-2 2, Wright 1-2 4-5 6, Ky.Davis 2-8 0-0 5, Ratliff 2-3 2-2 6, Thomas 1-3 2-2 4, White 5-7 0-0 14, Fields 2-3 0-0 6, Evans 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 23-53 14-15 70.

LAFAYETTE, La. ( KLFY) – In July of 2024 senior corporal Segus Jolivette lost his life in the line of duty, just months before he was scheduled to join the Louisiana State Police. But as his class attended the police academy, they paid tribute to Jolivette in a very special way.

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Tickets are on sale for "Bad Romance: An Anti-Valentine's Day" concert, the next performance in the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra's multi-sensory concert series, "Concert in the Cosmos," at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12-13 in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum's Pennington Planetarium, 100 S. River Road, Baton Rouge.