Northside High Principal Melinda Voorhies arrived Monday morning at the LPSS central office with her resignation letter in hand, and within minutes, LPSB member Tehmi Chassion's cell phone started ringing ...

It was Monday morning, and LPSB member Tehmi Chassion had just arrived for a surprise visit at J.W. Faulk Elementary when he got the call on his cell: Northside High Principal Melinda Voorhies had just dropped off her resignation letter at the central ...

It's no surprise so few want to be in the running this time around ...

For the longtime Lafayette Parish Sheriff's deputy, 2014 was a year spent on the campaign trail in an unsuccessful run to become Lafayette’s first new city marshal in decades; but for 2015, it appears he'll be taking on a whole new set of challenges ...

One Lafayette man’s alleged obsession with a Crestlawn Drive residence — a home he’s believed to have set afire on Jan. 16 — resulted in an arrest on Monday ...

Long a bellwether of the local economy, what are Lafayette’s pawn shops telling us as the price of oil slides? ...

If all goes as planned, Seth Fontenot’s first-degree murder trial — after being postponed four times over the last two years — should finally get underway this week in the 15th Judicial District. ...

It’s been a good week for state Rep. John Bel Edwards and his bid as the lone Democrat running for Bobby Jindal’s job as Louisiana's next governor ...

After a tight yet unsuccessful bid for Lafayette City Marshal, the former longtime Lafayette Parish sheriff’s deputy has put himself in the running for Duson’s next chief of police ...

The race for Elbert Guillory's District 24 seat in the Louisiana Senate just got interesting ...