The Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music planted the seed for Labor Day zydeco weekend. The Treasures of Opelousas, a ...

Lafayette family foundation spreads its generosity out among nonprofits that help children, animals and park preservation.

There was a time when former Ascension Episcopal defensive lineman Maxie Baudoin didn’t know if he’d be playing football ...

There's just something about taking the train trip around the zoo, how it gives you a behind-the-scenes tour of its universe ...

A DNA match connected columnist Jan Risher to a previously unknown living cousin. The cousin shared information about a woman ...

Author Robert Macfarlane, a celebrated British naturalist, wonders if rivers are such a complex presence that they might be ...

The Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre has scheduled children's auditions for "The Nutcracker: A Tale from the Bayou" for Sept. 14, ...

St. James has been one of the best teams in the state recently, having reached the Division III nonselect state championship ...

St. James' Kani King Young scores against Sterlington in the first half of the Division III non-select football state ...

Louisiana's Civil Code of 1825 is not universally celebrated like other famous founding documents, Columnist Faimon Roberts ...

The $5.8 billion Hyundai Steel plant that's set to rise in Ascension Parish is a key project for Gov. Jeff Landry's ...

Rachel Myles, 35, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison on one count each of attempted first-degree murder, ...