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One of the favorites in District 3-5A will have to climb out of a hole after St. Thomas More visits Acadiana in the league opener on Friday. The Cougars (2-1) and Wreckin' Rams (3-0), along with Southside (1-2), Barbe (3-0) and Lafayette High (3-0), are expected to fight it out for the 3-5A title.

South Louisiana Community College and Lafayette City Court have launched a pilot program allowing Judge Roya Boustany to sentence some eligible defendants to short-term workforce training as an alternative to penalties such as fines or community service. The first classes begin Saturday. The program does not serve as a

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations was fined more than $30,000 in penalties for two serious violations in a 2023 workplace accident that killed a Crowley man. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the company for not keeping a workplace free from recognized hazards and for not ensuring that its workplac

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Lafayette-based restaurant is bringing its Louisiana-inspired biscuit menu to Baton Rouge. Parish Biscuit Co. recently opened its first Baton Rouge location at 220 W. Lee Drive, marking the restaurant’s second location after launching in Lafayette in 2023. The restaurant is known

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Three Lafayette firefighters received the Life Safety Award for rescuing two children from a burning building at Himbola Manor Apartments. Capt. Sean Lirette and firefighters Seth Judice and Cole Champagne were honored for saving the children, ages 14 and 5. The awards were presented during...

SCOTT, La. (KLFY) — The fifth edition of the Acadiana Eats Festival is just around the corner, and the newly expanded two-day event will be bigger than ever. Along with two days of music, the event at West Village Development in Scott on Oct. 23 and 24 features more vendors than ever before.

Louisiana Tech University will spend nearly $2 million in public money to pay its student-athletes this year, while the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will devote $1.5 million to its sports teams.   Team-level payout details for four UL System sports programs, money for which comes from revenue generated on each

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning drivers to think before scanning to pay for parking. Brielle Blanchard, CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Acadiana, said scammers place their own QR code stickers over the legitimate parking meter QR code stickers. “We do have parking meters in the

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. (KLFY) — Two people were hospitalized after shooting at each other in Breaux Bridge on Monday, authorities said. Deputies with the St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office were dispatched at 8:41 p.m. Monday to the 1000 block of Juleau Champagne Road in Breaux Bridge in reference to a 19-year-old man suffe

Louisiana waters have alligators,some of those waters have a lot of alligators. Here are the top six rivers where an alligator encounter is almost a sure thing.