“There’s an expiration date on clean drinking water in Louisiana, and this is because of the acts of men, greed and a failed democracy — a democracy that put the flags of oil and gas companies over our state Capitol,” Honoré says during a panel ...

Williams had claimed he was owed the money as back pay, even though no rational person with a second-grade grasp of mathematics would reasonably conclude Williams could have possibly worked the hours he claimed ...

It’s difficult to say exactly when relations between the talented, capable and at-times mercurial administrator and a school board that once supported him began their inexorable slide toward enmity and rancor, but slide they did ...

It's Good, it's Bad and it's Just Crazy! As years go, 2014 was almost remarkably average. We had our share of public officials misbehaving, a legislative session dominated by sheepish lawmakers unwilling to cross the boorish Louisiana Oil & Gas Association ...

In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo., law enforcement agencies nationwide are embracing body cameras for officers. It‘s time law enforcement in Lafayette follows suit ...

With the DA's race too close to call and negative media coverage of Mike Harson on the ebb, will challenger Keith Stutes take the gloves off? With the DA's race too close to call and negative media coverage of Mike Harson on the ebb, will challenger ...

The fate of our highly qualified superintendent and his ambitious turnaround plan hang in the balance on Nov. 4. We have to get this right. [Editor's note: Since this story went to press, new developments have emerged in the school board's attempt ...

The following questions were posed to all of the new candidates: Have you read the Turnaround Plan? Are you for it or against it? Why or why not? The following questions were posed to all of the new candidates: Have you read the Turnaround Plan? ...

How Lafayette's family businesses have survived despite the odds THICKER than WATERHow Lafayette's family businesses have survived despite the odds By Luke Darby Photos Photos by Robin May HUB CITY FORD: Front row, left to right ...

Why Lafayette's lone taxi company has a monopoly on business yet might not last another decade ...