Louisiana’s U.S. senators know the best way to deal with gun violence in America: the Big Guy — and big bucks from the NRA ...

The city-parish councilman held a press conference at City Hall Monday morning to announce that the Louisiana Board of Ethics had cleared him of any wrongdoing during his former employment with the district attorney’s office ...

With the district attorney and consolidated government walking away with what amounts to a truce, the nagging issues of consolidation in Lafayette Parish will remain unresolved ...

Members of local LGBT group encourage public to attend Orlando vigil Tuesday night at Parc Sans Souci ...

It could, if successful, force LUS to stop making ILOT payments to LCG, which would represent a crippling hit to Lafayette Consolidated Government’s revenue stream in an era of plummeting sales tax collections ...

The feinting and jabbing between District Attorney Keith Stutes and Lafayette Consolidated Government continued into another round Tuesday night. The haymakers fly next week ...

It’s feel-good Tea Party propaganda, folks, and it could pose a real risk to the fiscal health of LCG and the services it provides ...

The Council is likely to approve the ordinance stripping the funding from the district attorney’s office so that the issue of “consolidation” can finally be settled through the court system ...

If the council approves the measure, Stutes will be back in court seeking to have the finalized ordinance set aside and preventing LCG from amending the budget to reflect the funding reduction to his office ...

Thad Welch was ultimately and inextricably hitched to the star-crossed tenure of Pat Cooper ...