Congressmen Cleo Fields (D-Baton Rouge) and Clay Higgins (R-Lafayette) have introduced a proposed amendment to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which would expand ...

Fire and heavy smoke were still pouring out of a Nebraska biofuels plant Wednesday morning, preventing firefighters from getting close enough to search for three people ...

No substantial damage has been reported so far, but authorities warned people away from shorelines and said the risk could last more than a day.

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans ...

The man who stormed a Manhattan office tower with a gun, killing four people before killing himself, worked in the surveillance department of a Las Vegas casino, part of an ...

A HEAT ADVISORY is in effect for Acadia, St. Landry, and Evangeline Parishes today as temperatures reach the mid 90s with ...

Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday and aim to reveal new insights into what caused the crash between a passenger plane ...

A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of ...

The Lafayette Ballers are preparing for the start of their season on October 25th, with a roster of 14 active players and two ...

A gunman who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower blamed his mental health problems on the National Football League and intended to target its headquarters but took ...

A tsunami has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia early Wednesday. Tsunami ...

A Lafayette woman and her children were forced to flee their apartment after the ceiling fell on them while they were in bed, and she is calling for the apartment complex to be held accountable ...