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The Scott Mardi Gras Parade will be run by the City of Scott going forward, officials have announced.

What can you do with a master’s degree in English? For Heather Degeyter, the answer was to whip up the sweetest bakery-bookstore her hometown has ever seen. Her dual business, Bonne Vie Macarons and Book Club & Co., opened this past summer in downtown Lafayette, a bright and cheery spot that is already drawing local...

Some Head Start providers in Louisiana have taken out loans to keep operating if the government shutdown stretches into its second month. At least two organizations — Prime Time in the Lafayette area and Clover in New Orleans — are supposed to receive funding through the federal early-learning program for low-income...

A well-known local restaurant, Shane’s Famous Quesadilla Burgers, is expanding with a second location opening tomorrow, Wednesday, November 5th, at 803 W. Pinhook Road—the same site where the brand first got its start. “We’re not closing the Congress location. We’re simply opening another spot on the Pinhook side,”...

Actor Ian Somerhalder is returning to his home state to sign bottles of his bourbon whiskey in Lafayette. Somerhalder will sign bottles of Brother's Bond Bourbon from 1-3 p.m. on Nov. 13 at the Lafayette Costco, he announced in a video on TikTok this week. "Please come down and see...

Louisiana native and Hollywood actor Ian Somerhalder returns home for a bourbon signing event at the Lafayette Costco this November.

The Daily Advertiser information for the week of Oct. 20-27, 2025, from the Louisiana Department of Health. The top three addresses with the most critical violations in Lafayette Parish are listed, along with an explanation of the findings. All restaurants on the list had at least two critical violations. According...

Gabriella Sharp's untimely death has raised many questions, and authorities are looking to the community for answers.

If you've been holding on to your $2 bills, you might want to go grab them because some of them could be worth a lot of money.

LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — Lafayette's Mardi Gras parades are set to return to Jefferson Street in the heart of downtown next year, a route last used in 1993. The Lafayette Consolidated Government announced the change last week, but not everyone is on board. City Councilman Kenneth Boudreaux will...