The Louisiana Board of Ethics has charged Rina Tikia, a former insurance consultant for the Lafayette Parish School Board, for giving a board member tickets to a New Orleans Saints game ...

The amount a candidate receives in donations is typically a good indicator of how things will pan out come election day ...

Now in control of both houses of Congress, Republicans are following through on promises to address problems with the Affordable Care Act, starting with a bill aimed at “helping” America’s workforce. But the issue is not that simple ...

The federal Curious Goods conspiracy case came to close once and for all Thursday with the sentencing of Lafayette criminal defense attorney Daniel Stanford ...

The haze from all the Kumbaya around the campfire vibes still hover thick over LPSB’s seven freshly seated members, but even though it’s been less than a month, they’ve also been busy making big decisions ...

Mulling a run for sheriff, the police chief disputes a recent blog citing Lafayette as a main contributor to Louisiana's ranking as the nation’s fifth most dangerous state ...

The last three years in Lafayette Parish have proven a difficult and tired road for longtime education advocates like Greg Davis, whose hard-fought efforts finally hit a brick wall as 2014 came to a close ...

It was Sunday, May 25, when J. Clay LeJeune and his wife Mitzi Mayeaux were about to sit down for a meal with their teenage daughter, but that meal would never be eaten thanks to a surprise visit by the Crowley PD ...

From the frustration over the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and subsequent grand jury decisions clearing the involved officers, there’s a growing voice rising up throughout this country in protest of America’s police forces ...

It wasn’t long ago when Don Cravins Sr. — a former state senator and soon-to-be former mayor of Opelousas — stood before a crowd inside the Clifton Chenier Center and defended his political ethics ...