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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Medical cannabis use has been picking up, including in southwest Louisiana. The number of patients across the state went up 60% over the past year.