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.

Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below: $4 million FEMA grant for flood relief. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just 15 votes divided winner Jean Paul “JP” Broussard and his opponent in the Dec. 7 runoff for Youngsville police chief, while Nick Niland won the special election for Youngsville City Council with ...

Downtown could see more housing development with 2,000 new units of sewer capacity up for grabs. Photo by Travis Gauthier For years, a lack of sewer capacity has clogged efforts to add more housing in ...

A building sits empty and overgrown with weeds on the historic campus of the Central Louisiana State Hospital in Pineville, La., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. Photo by Alena Maschke There’s a stream that ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry speaks in the Louisiana House of Representatives on the opening day of a legislative special session, Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at the Louisiana State Capitol in ...

The Hilliard Art Museum tapped Molly Rowe, a Lafayette boomerang, to run the university art museum, formally announcing the appointment in a press release this week. Rowe succeeds LouAnne Greenwald, ...

Lafayette Consolidated Government announced plans to revitalize Bertrand Drive, adding more space and pathways for cyclists and pedestrians—a step toward the longer-term vision of connecting Cajun ...