She spearheaded a new approach to health in Lafayette — now Beacon Community Connections founder and Executive Director Holly ...

We’ll select four Wavemakers in 2025 and celebrate their work. Honorees will be profiled by David Begnaud in a televised ...

The institute was once a bustling campus that began as a vocational school for Black girls in 1913 and grew into a national ...

The reduction will leave $44 million for the program, enough to continue covering private school tuition for 6,000 students who already receive state-funded vouchers.

The presence of some of the nation’s biggest providers raises the stakes for the municipal telecom, after it made a ...

For years, residents of a subdivision near Youngsville have complained about water quality. Now, a new operator’s plans ...

In their new novel ‘Of Flesh and Blood,’ Lafayette authors Hunter Burke and Nick Lavin create a chilling blend of fact and ...

Property casualty insurers made a record $169 billion in profit in 2024—even as they raised prices and pushed for laws to ...

Louisiana legalized concealed carry without a permit in July 2024, but the state’s Gun-Free School Zone law has complicated ...

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Throughout her life and as she worked to home school her three children, she connected to the wider world through public libraries. “You know, I was raised in libraries, grew up in libraries, spent so ...

Cait Marshall and Ellis Clay are long since graduated from St. Thomas More, but they haven’t gone quietly. After the Catholic school prioritized a policy targeting queer students, they stood up and ...