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More than 100 Lafayette-area students wrapped up a week of activities at Camp Inspire with an awards ceremony at the Martin Luther King Center on Friday. Students in kindergarten through eighth grade participated in the program throughout the week, which included visits from the Lafayette Fire Department and the Lafaye

More than 200 youth volunteers and adult chaperones from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cleaned up the tree gardens at Moncus Park as part of a service project tied to a youth conference held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The group descended on the park to pull weeds, spread mulch, and t

A popular plate lunch restaurant in Lafayette that closed about two months ago over unpaid taxes is set to reopen under new ownership and a new name. Noah's Cafe on Ambassador Caffery Parkway will reopen as Yen's Cafe on July 24, offering the same plate lunches the location was known for, along with Vietnamese cuisine.

A former Deputy U.S. Marshal who beat a shackled prisoner inside the Lafayette federal courthouse is now headed to federal prison himself. On Friday, Joshua Firmin was sentenced to 45 months behind bars after a jury found he assaulted a detainee during custody operations in early 2024 and then lied about it in an offic

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – A shooting leaving one person injured occurred early Sunday morning. The shooting take place around 1:50 a.m. near the 600 block of Division Street, police said. One person was injured from the shooting before being transported to a local hospital. The victim is in stable...

Winning is a culture, a learned behavior and an attitude. Once those elements are in place, the wins follow. That has certainly been the case at Teurlings Catholic, where the Rebels moved up the stepladder in the ranks of the very tough Division I Select ranks. Over the last two...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – Saturday morning will see warm and humid conditions with temperatures climbing into the upper 80s by lunchtime. During the afternoon, highs will be near 90 ahead of widespread showers and thunderstorms developing. These storms will bring heavy rainfall and plentiful lightning to the area. Widesp

The public pool at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center on Lafayette's northside reopened to the public on Friday after a lengthy closure for repairs. Families took advantage of the cool water on a hot afternoon, marking the return of the MLK pool to public use. The reopening brought the number of active Lafayette Consoli

At the Vermilionville performance center this spring in Lafayette, citizens gathered and stuck sticky notes on maps with messages. “We need more places to relax and have a drink on the bayou.”. “More ecotourism, please.”. A yellow note said, “What about a river walk?” and was countered with a pink...

BATON ROUGE - For the first time this year, Louisiana's Department of Health has recorded that someone died because of a heat-related issue. The health department released few details to protect the victim's privacy, other than to say the victim was a man over the age of 65, in region 4 around Lafayette.