Lafayette LA

The Lafayette Police Department is proud to partner with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a ‘Special Wave’ enforcement endeavor targeting impaired drivers operating motor vehicles on the roadway.

Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested one man in connection with a Monday morning shooting.

The next Lafayette Consolidated Government Household Hazardous Waste Day (HHWD) will be held on September 9, 2023.

I am saddened by the passing of Mr. Earl “Nickey” Picard. Mr. Picard was a good friend, mentor, and inspiration to me and a pillar in the community.

As author of City Ordinance No. CO-094-2023 with reference to licensing and operation of short-term rentals (prohibition in residential single family zoning), District 2 Lafayette City Council Member Andy Naquin has requested that the ordinance be deferred to the September 5, 2023, City Council Meeting in light of requests from a number of his colleagues on the Council.

Due to higher-than-normal demand on the water systems and the impacts on water pressures, Lafayette Utilities System (LUS), City of Youngsville, and City of Broussard are asking that customers pause any high-water consumption activities, including lawn watering, until further notice.

So often we allow our yesterdays to interfere with our todays. We toil over mistakes that we can’t change.

Pro-life advocate Frank Pavone will be the keynote speaker at the Champions of Change: Spot-Lighting the Pro-Life Movement Banquet and Silent auction on September 7, 2023.

Social media teaches us to show off a lifestyle that isn’t the whole truth. Posts are full of financial success, joy, peace, know-how, and opinions based on strains of truths.

The northbound outside lane of LA 176 (Moss Street) between E. Pont Des Mouton Road and Maryview Farm Road, 0.16 mile north of E. Pont Des Mouton, will be closed daily beginning August 16 until August 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weather permitting.