A search for healthier food options motivated one Lafayette woman to start her own company. “I would go to the grocery store and try to find nutritious things and think oh god I can’t afford this,” says Taylor Stokes, of Taylormade Eats. This led Stokes to the farmers market. She found better prices and kale […]
Only a few showers are working through southeastern Acadiana this Friday morning. Everyone is chilly and cloudy with temperatures back in the lower 50s to 40s to start the day. Rain chances should end early with another mostly cloudy and cool afternoon ahead. Some more sunshine could break through the clouds later today. The weather […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The Lafayette Police Department is looking for new full-time officers. Saturday, February 8, they will be hosting their first recruitment day since the City-Parish Council approved a 14% pay raise for starting patrol officers. “We just want people who actually have a passion for the job, who have integrity, who want […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Dulles Drive from Westgate Road (La. 93) to N. Domingue Road will be closed starting Tuesday, Feb. 4. The closure is part of a multi-phase project that will eventually three-lane the road with subsurface drainage. The complete project is expected to take 2.5 years, though the main closure of the road […]
IIBERIA PARISH, La. (KLFY)- Iberia Parish authorities are looking for a man wanted for running a contractor scam. Donovan Hollier, 26, faces three counts of contractor fraud. Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office Lt. Col. Wendell Raborn says the scam has cost the victims nearly $20,000 total. If you know the whereabouts of Hollier, please contact law […]
SCOTT, La. (KLFY) — Officials say a 4-year-old set her family’s apartment on fire Wednesday night in Scott. The fire started in a downstairs apartment at Ile Des Cannes. Neighbors said they did not see any flames, but there was a lot of smoke pouring out of the building. “Once we made entry into the […]
ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) — A social media post and picture of what appears to be blood on an emergency room bed at Abbeville General Hospital has gone viral. An emergency room visit for one Vermilion Parish resident and her 11-year-old daughter turned bloody at Abbeville General Hospital. A woman brought her daughter into the emergency […]
Vautrot’s Mini Mart in Church Point is a one-stop shop for your South Louisiana favorites. Vautrot’s Mini Mart (View menu) Items featured on Acadiana Eats: Pepper jack boudin balls Catfish courtbouillon Address: 1038 Peach Bloom Hwy, Church Point, LA 70525 Hours: Mon.- Sat. 6 a.m.- 9 p.m. Sun. 7 a.m.- 9 p.m. What great grub spot […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Police are investigating a shooting in the 100 block of Arizona Street in Lafayette. Officers were called just before 3:15 p.m. in reference to a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim, not is reportedly not cooperating with detectives, sustained non-life threatening injuries, Lafayette Police Department spokesman Cpl. Bridgette Dugas said. […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The fate of the Buchanan parking garage is back in limbo after Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG) canceled the request for proposal (RFP) from March 2019. “According to Director of Development and Planning, Danielle Breaux, LCG carefully considered four proposals received for the site’s redevelopment and it has been determined from LCG’s […]