Lafayette News

The National Weather Service reports the center of Hurricane Gustav has made landfall near Cocodire, LA.

The Lafayette City-Parish Council will get back to normal business next week, with a budget hearing and special meeting both scheduled.

No one I know wants to say it out loud. I'm not even sure how many of them think it.

Crews worked across UL's campus yesterday morning to clear away the signs of Hurricane Gustav in advance of students returning to classes today.

When I first moved to Acadiana in 1994 to teach at Rayne High School, I fell in love with the culture and people of southwest Louisiana as well as the twin genres of the music so indelibly linked to that ...

BEAUMONT, Texas - The path of Hurricane Gustav offered New Orleans a reprieve, but 80 miles away where utilities say the devastation was the worst they have ever seen, the storm offered nothing but punishment.

"The New Prince of Accordion" has passed away on this day of September 4, 2008. Fernest Arceneaux , born August 27, 1940, died in Lafayette of natural causes.

LAFAYETTE - Hurricane Gustav relief work in south Louisiana for some means sawing branches, fixing roofs or restoring power.

Insurance companies are putting mobile claims units and plans into gear as residents turn to them for help with insurance claims after Hurricane Gustav destroyed some homes and property.

UL -- Students walked from commuter lots, biked down sidewalks and waited for buses Thursday, the first day the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has been open since Gustav struck.

The lights were slow to come back on in homes across Acadiana on Wednesday as rain, floods and tornados hampered power restoration efforts.

Two people were killed during the storm Monday when a tree fell on a home in Baton Rouge.

The Lafayette Police department has identified 27-year old Keith Duhon of Lafayette as the man killed inside his home when a tree fell on his house on the 100 block of Jade St.

Two local men were killed early today when a pickup was hit by a car trying to cross Kaliste Saloom Road on Farrell Road.

The following Lafayette restaurants and businesses are open as of 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: Burger King on Pinhook Road, across from Wal-Mart Golden Wok on Bertrand Drive Raising Cane's on Congress Street near ...

The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Louisiana to help people and communities recover ...

Twice the load? No problem. The Salvation Army in Lafayette opened its doors on Monday to feed and house those in need as Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Acadiana area, coping with a group that was twice ...

After dealing a glancing blow to the Mississippi Coast, Hurricane Gustav has been downgraded to a tropical depression.

Hurricane Gustav downed trees and power lines across Acadiana Monday, leaving more than 150,000 Acadiana residents without power.

It was the first test of New Orleans' new and improved levees, which are still being rebuilt three years after Hurricane Katrina.