Megan Wyatt

One person is dead after a small plane crashed Thursday morning near Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette Parish.

One person is dead after a small plane crashed Thursday morning at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette Parish.

One person is dead after a small plane crashed Thursday morning at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette Parish.

of 9 A Lafayette homebuilder has been identified as the pilot who died in a Thursday morning plane crash at Oakbourne Country Club in Lafayette Parish.

Lafayette Parish missed the worst of Hurricane Francine, but the storm served as a test of the area's emergency preparedness system.

A well-known Lafayette homebuilder, the pilot of the aircraft, was the lone victim. Here's what neighbors saw and heard.

Nineteen people have applied to lead Lafayette Parish's new Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

The bill likely came as a surprise to the Lafayette Police Department. After all, city police didn't receive a bill for the same service by the sheriff's office during the 2017 funeral of Cpl. Michael Middlebrook, another Lafayette Police officer killed in the line of duty.

The most notable part of the budget is a pay plan that gives significant raises to Lafayette Consolidated Government's lowest-paid employees.

The Lafayette city and parish councils voted on Tuesday to roll forward property tax rates to generate more money for services at a time when inflation is hitting local government hard and federal COVID-19 relief funds are coming to an end. That means most homeowners will see a higher property tax bill.