Clint Odom is the legislative director for Democratic U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, the first black woman California has sent to the Senate and the first Indian-American to ever serve in the body ...
The U.S. Justice Department delivers a stunning blow to the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Ville Platte PD in a scathing report that could lead to a flood of lawsuits ...
The local chapter is asking the state Legislature to craft a constitutional amendment that would allow voters statewide to decide whether historic monuments should be permanently shielded from “destruction, dismantling, removal, moving, storage or hiding.” ...
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Isle de Jean Charles is endangered for the same reasons that much of coastal Louisiana has become part of the Gulf of Mexico: The land is sinking, river levees are preventing it from being replenished, oil and gas drilling accelerated erosion — ...
A subsidiary of the Evangeline Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America purchased McGee’s Landing, a move that will turn the Henderson levee property into a magnet for scouting adventure and educational activities for decades to come. ...
Attorney William Goodell claims construction of the proposed I-49 Connector over the contaminated Union Pacific Railroad area will cause the release of contaminants into the aquifer, which will threaten the city’s water supply and could make the public ...
On Dec. 16, the Louisiana Supreme Court declined to hear the embattled official's latest appeal, affirming that The Independent had the right to file a public records lawsuit against him ...
The Lafayette Fire Department is taking over service in an unincorporated area of rural west and northwest Lafayette Parish previously serviced by the Scott Volunteer Fire Department after a dispute between the SVFD and Lafayette Consolidated Government ...
Twice a year Acadiana residents travel to the Louisiana State Penitentiary to visit incarcerated family members, thanks to the Catholic Diocese of Lafayette ...