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 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.

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.

New Orleans-born coffee shop French Truck Coffee is expanding this year.  French Truck Coffee founder and owner Geoffrey Meeker plans to open two new locations in Louisiana this year and two to three coffee shops in 2026.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has released a list of roads previously closed due to the blizzard that have reopened.

Southern Louisiana can expect a winter weather event the likes of ... "from the Sabine to the Pearl" rivers and "extend from the coast to Alexandria" with Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans and Lake Charles in harm's way as snow begins to fall early ...

Students in Louisiana, and in Lafayette Parish, made big gains on a closely watched national test. New data revealed on Wednesday, January 29, shows our

Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.

A Louisiana inmate was dropped off at a Baton Rouge bus station by accident. East Carroll Parish Officials were transporting other prisoners who were set to be released at the bus station; however, the East Baton Rouge District Attorney, Hillar Moore, is not sure how or why the inmate, Christopher Davis, was included in that transport.

A winter storm swept across south Louisiana on Tuesday morning, covering New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette in a layer of snow.

BATON ROUGE ARTS MARKET: 8 a.m. to noon, Fifth and Main streets, downtown. Vendors sell a variety of unique, original works of art including pottery, woodwork, textiles, glass, paintings, sculptures, photographs, handmade soaps, handmade toys, jewelry and more. artsbr.org.

Louisiana was the only state to surpass pre-pandemic reading levels in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress.