Lafayette Parish

Agencies have been given the task of looking to trim their departments.

It's not just wild animals that carry rabies. Household pets can carry the fatal disease that can be prevented.

Lafayette Consolidated Government says its contractor will make a second pass at collecting storm debris throughout the parish as a result of March's flooding storms.

A Lafayette fire does does massive damage and more.

State Treasurer John Kennedy has announced the State Bond Commission has approved over 48 million dollars for projects across Louisiana and 15 million dollars for refinancing existing public debt.

Lafayette city-parish government's new satellite vehicle tracking system has begun identifying employees in public vehicles who speed, fail to use their seat belts and drop by their homes during work hours.

Here are the results for Lafayette Parish in the 2011 October general election. These are complete yet unofficial results, with all 122 precincts reporting. Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court Louis Perret reports 34% of Lafayette Parish voters turned out.

An alleged rapist is now behind bars.

This Labor Day, Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes in Lafayette Parish.

There are many changes expected in the new flood map.

Everyone within a one mile radius of a natural gas well on Bourque Road in Lafayette Parish is being evacuated.

There will be no garbage or recycling collection in the city of Lafayette and unincorporated areas of Lafayette Parish on Mardi Gras day.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Rather than risk a fourth failing year at N.P. Moss Middle School, the Lafayette Parish School Board is closing it and reassigning its students.

State Police say a one-vehicle crash in Lafayette Parish late yesterday afternoon left the driver dead.

Scott Police conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle after the vehicle ran a stop sign in a residential area.

Last night, around 10:30 pm, two 16-year-old female victims were walking near the entrance of a business, in the 4400 block of Ambassador Caffery, when they were approached by three suspects.