The first time Patricia Cravins stepped onto Paul Breaux’s campus was in 1955, for her brother’s high school graduation. Over the next 43 years, its halls would become a fixture in her life. As a student, she would watch the high school close. As a teacher, she was there when it reopened as a middle school.

The Boulet administration still can’t say the Guillory administration’s signature drainage project will protect a single home from flooding, but with millions in unreimbursed expenses on the line, it is moving ahead to complete it. The state is continuing to withhold nearly $28 million from Lafayette Consolidated Government...

The Lafayette Police Department has suspended its recently launched initiative to send specially trained officers to mental health-related calls. Police officials cited a lack of staff to man regular patrol while several officers are out on administrative leave following officer-involved shootings. “We, like many other agencies, are always trying to...

Johnathon Palacios wanted to build a bond with his teenage son, something he felt he missed as a young father. He wasn’t around much when 15-year-old Joh’von was a child, and he tried to make up for lost time. But when Joh’von got in trouble for vaping in the bathroom before a high school basketball game, Palacios realized that their relationship still needed work — and he had trouble guiding his son onto the right path.

For modern audiophiles, vinyl records are the pinnacle of the listening experience. In 2023, vinyl records outsold CDs for the first time since 1987. But making vinyl records can be incredibly time consuming, with production times ranging anywhere from six weeks to six months. Now, Citronel Sounds, a new Lafayette...

“Some people want Lafayette to be a big Abbeville. Others want it to be the next Austin.”. That’s what lobbyist and local political guru Tyron Picard said to me years ago, explaining why it can be difficult to get everyone on the same page over what we want our city to look like in the future.

Editor’s Note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Students and faculty members gathered Monday on UL Lafayette’s campus to protest...

For five years, skaters in Lafayette had nowhere to go. After the Dust Bowl (a small concrete skate park near UL’s campus) was built over to create more university housing, Lafayette skaters were left in the dust without a community home. Ooti Billeaud wanted to change that. With the...

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:. Lafayette Consolidated Government administers millions to local community organizations each year through the federal government’s Community Development Block Grant program. Those funds go to groups pursing essential community needs, like housing and social services.

With local law enforcement and corrections under increasing pressure, Mayor-President Monique Boulet has revived a multi-agency collaborative designed to get disparate parts of the criminal justice system on the same page. The Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee’s rebirth is coming at a crucial time, as Lafayette grapples with an all-time high...

Halfway through former tech entrepreneur Paul TenHaken’s first term as mayor of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the coronavirus pandemic hit, and with it came a slew of challenges the young mayor hadn’t anticipated. One was the lingering mental health effects. “The pandemic changed people,” TenHaken said. Suicides began...

Decided last month over loud resistance, the departure of French immersion and gifted programs from Paul Breaux Middle School has left unresolved Lafayette Parish School System’s plan for the students zoned for the school. Paul Breaux is currently without a permanent principal, and the school board has not clearly...

Surrounded by the pristine beaches of the Mediterranean Sea, Barry Ancelet found himself missing Acadiana while studying abroad. Ancelet, now professor emeritus of French and Francophone studies at UL Lafayette, had been in Nice, France, for a year when a chance encounter with folk singer Robert Mason cured his envie for Louisiana culture and led Ancelet to an idea that would help reinvigorate the landscape of Louisiana’s traditional music scene.

This story was reported by the LSU Manship School News Service. Parents in Louisiana would receive from $5,000 to $15,000 in state money to send their children to private schools under a Landry administration bill that is moving through the State Legislature. The Louisiana GATOR Scholarship program passed the House...

ASAP, the restaurant delivery startup formerly known as Waitr, looks to be dead. It filed for bankruptcy liquidation this week after quietly ceasing operations last week. This news isn’t surprising. In January 2023, the company was delisted from Nasdaq because its stock price had dropped too low. Midway through last year, it outsourced its delivery operations to UberEats. Last month UberEats ended that partnership, leaving ASAP a delivery service without the ability to deliver anything.

In Glenmora, there are still some markers that remind visitors and residents alike of the small town’s prosperous history, fueled — like much of Central and North Louisiana’s economy in the first half of the 20th century — by lumber and oil. There’s the historic Pringle...

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:. Parish Agenda (Public Comment Time!) Lafayette 101. Municipal bonds. Government bodies borrow money by issuing debt in the form of...

The Lafayette Utilities System is making a $400 million bet on a new power generation facility in Lafayette, joining a national trend in response to regulatory pressure that is pushing LUS to end its reliance on coal. For the first time in almost two decades, LUS is building a new...

Callie Ardoin was getting ready for a double shift at a Eunice sports bar when she found herself staring at the two solid lines. She was pregnant. The pregnancy was unexpected but easy, she said. Still, when it came time to deliver the baby, she was happy her doula, who also happened to be her aunt, was there with her.

Lafayette’s rules for short-term rentals begin taking effect April 1, and include new permit requirements and a ban on operations in certain parts of the city. Here’s what you need to know. STRs are banned in single-family neighborhoods. Effective October 6, short-term rentals will be banned from the...