WASHINGTON (Press release) –The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today released state-by-state figures for Economic Impact Payments, with 88 million individuals receiving payments worth nearly $158 billion in the program’s first three weeks. As of April 17, the IRS issued 88.1 million payments to taxpayers across the nation. More payments are continuing to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and the White House coronavirus task force are scheduled to hold a briefing Friday on the country’s fight against the COVID-19 virus. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Central. Trump signed a $484 billion bill Friday to aid employers and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic that […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory announced Friday that the parish’s three public golf courses will reopen Saturday, April 25, 2020. The facilities will be required to follow the state’s safe-distancing guidelines. Guillory said additional openings will be announced in the coming days. Beginning Friday, the Lafayette Police Department and the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA) — The Internal Revenue Service will begin mailing paper checks the week ending April 24. The first round of people to receive checks will be those with an adjusted gross income (AGI) under $10,000. All single filers, with the exception of those who do not have their tax info on file […]
BREAUX BRIDGE, La.- (Press release)- The St. Martin Council on Aging will resume delivery of hot meals on May 1 to all of its homebound and congregate seniors. Residents in Stephensville/Belle River who receive homemaker services will receive shelf stable meals for thirty days, with the assistance of grant funds received from Meals on Wheels […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — It’s a tale of two different sides of one building. Hub City Cycle in Downtown Lafayette is considered an essential business and has remained open. Unlike their store partner SugarWolf Outdoor Exchange who closed on March 17th and is still working with online sales only. “We got everything up and our […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — FoodNet and KLFY’s virtual food drive smashed its goal after Acadiana donors helped kick off the 7-Day Staples Project. The food drive, which took place online with fundraising instead of actual physical food donations, raised over $255,000 as of 9:30 p.m. The drive had sought $225,000. The 7-Day Staples Project was […]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Unfortunately, Festival International was one of the many events canceled by the COVID-19 crisis, but a virtual version of the show will start tomorrow (April 24) on Facebook. See the full Festival International Virtual Lineup for 2020. Across three evenings, many of the festival’s acts will play from locations around the […]
UPDATE, 9:45 p.m.: Eunice Police confirmed that both victims were juveniles, one aged 16, the other aged 17. The suspects, still being sought by police, are also thought to be juveniles. One of the juveniles was airlifted to a local hospital. ORIGINAL POST: EUNICE, La. (KLFY) — Eunice Police confirmed that there are two victims […]
VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY)- A screening site will open in Ville Platte’s Northside Civic Center on Friday, April 24, 2020, at 10 a.m. Ville Platte Mayor Jennifer Vidrine said the mobile site will be operated by the Southwest Primary Health Care Center and services are available to anyone who needs them.
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- Many people are out of work in Louisiana due to the coronavirus pandemic and it is causing an overload on the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s online system. Secretary of Unemployment Insurance Robert Wooly says since most people try to re-certify on Sunday and it clogs the system up and slows it down for […]
CROWLEY, La. (KLFY)- Firefighters in Crowley worked to put a house fire out early this morning that resulted in a total loss. This comes after the Crowley mayor laid off five personnel from the Crowley Fire Department. “I went to bed a little after 12 a.m., and I heard a big bang and through the […]