Megan Wyatt

Wednesday morning's heavy rain led to especially severe street flooding and multiple stalled vehicles on Ambassador Caffery at the Dulles Drive intersection.

The Lafayette City Council last year banned short-term rentals in single-family residential neighborhoods within the city limits. The council is now considering allowing short-term rentals like Airbnbs in houses within the downtown district.

Acadiana could soon have its own Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo in Thailand who's taken the internet by storm.

Braxton Francis says he is a different person today than he was last summer when he arrived at the Lafayette Juvenile Detention Home.In June 2023, Francis had just been arrested for attempted second-degree murder. On Friday, he became the first person to ever graduate from high school at Lafayette's juvenile jail.

The operation was recently recognized as nonprofit of the year by the Lafayette Mayor-President's Disability Awareness Committee. On Tuesday, the nonprofit will receive a gold award from Governor's Office of Disability Affairs for service provider of the year.

of 7 Lafayette Parish is expected to have a new emergency operations plan in place ahead of the 2025 hurricane season.

Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Boulet hopes the Bertrand Drive project will inspire similar public and private investment for a bigger project that would transform an 8.5 mile stretch of Johnston Street from a cluttered roadway to one that's more visually appealing and safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

The proposed project would connect Moncus Park and Cajun Field with pedestrian and cyclist paths while also addressing utility, drainage and traffic along a half-mile stretch of Bertrand Drive.

Within a three-hour time frame, 414 calls came into Lafayette Consolidated Government in support of hanging flags from the utility poles and 11 calls in opposition. About two dozen Brentwood residents attended Tuesday's City Council meeting.

Residents of a neighborhood in north Lafayette recently had their curbside trash cans replaced by dumpsters at the front of their development after Acadiana Waste Services deemed their road impassable. Although AWS is within its right to do so, the company violated its contract with the city by not properly notifying city officials of the change.