This list is comprised of individuals and organizations that have provided funds to The Current in excess of $2,500. Note: This list does not include advertisers or in-kind gifts. 2023 Miami ...

How to Catch a Ghost is author Lizzie Guitreau Doria's first published piece of work and is the first place recipient of the 2024 Southern Screen Short Fiction Writing Challenge. The following is the ...

Every December I open my stocking for statistical goodies from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the federal agency that measures economic performance. That’s when the agency drops county-level real ...

Superintendent Francis Touchet aims to scour the district’s finances for savings that could enable it to build a new Paul Breaux and a new Northside High as separate facilities. Photo by Robin May ...

The state has taken a backseat in providing inpatient care, relying on outpatient services and private acute-care hospitals instead. Medical cannabis use has been picking up, including in southwest ...

A new multi-family development is under construction on the corner of Congress and Emerite streets. To add more housing options like this, LCG is looking to diversify its zoning regulations away from ...

Bethany Cooney-Palmer sits on the porch of her home in Scott, La., on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. After an appointment in May 2022, Bethany Cooney-Palmer left the offices of Crowley surgeon Dr.

The Acadiana Advocate looks back on the lives lost in 2024, including the musicians, foodies, artists, business owners and civic leaders so integral to the place we all call home. “When we lose people ...

Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below: $4 million FEMA grant for flood relief. The ...

Election Day is Dec. 7. Here’s a one-stop shop for voter and candidate information for the ballot in Lafayette Parish.

The Undercurrent Awards celebrate the folks working to make Lafayette a better place to live. We call them Wavemakers — a force for good moving under the surface. The 2024 Undercurrent Awards ...

An unforeseen challenge to this push has been the city’s new short-term rental ban attached to single-family neighborhoods, the most prevalent — and most restrictive — form of residential zoning in ...