Tuesday morning is cold across Acadiana but winds are very light or calm. Northern Acadiana temperatures are at or just below freezing, this could lead to areas of frost early this morning. A cold and calm morning will be followed by a partly cloudy a cool afternoon. Highs today are expected back in the upper [...]
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (KLFY) -- Most Mardi Gras festivities across Acadiana are skipping 2021, but Lake Arthur is finding a way to continue its parade this weekend. Organizers are choosing to run the parade will run through the neighboring community of Thornwell because the Lake Arthur Chief Police Kobi Turner did not feel parading through [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) Two Lafayette city council members, Nanette Cook and Glenn Lazard, have taken on the face mask mandate battle and how local police can enforce it. Clerk of the Council Veronica Williams says the council office has received over 2,000 calls. She says each call is being logged with some in favor of [...]
(KLFY) The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is beginning a three-month process of transitioning its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits schedule to distribute benefits more evenly throughout each month. Rather than receiving their benefits during the 1st through 14th of each month, SNAP households will soon receive them between the 1st [...]
Baton Rouge, La. (KLFY) February 1 marks National Unclaimed Property Day in Louisiana, and the State Treasurer's office says more than $900 million in payroll checks, bank accounts, royalties, refunds, deposits, gift certificates and life insurance payouts are waiting to be claimed. The assets are turned over each year by businesses and financial institutions who [...]
ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (KLFY) 406 vaccine providers across all 64 parishes in Louisiana will receive limited doses of COVID-19 vaccine. On Monday, Courtney's Thriftyway Pharmacy in Arnaudville received their first 100 doses of the Moderna vaccine. "As we schedule people, we are staggering the appointments. We are letting people come in or stay in [...]
VERMILION PARISH, La. (KLFY) Vermilion Parish middle and high school students will be returning to full in-person learning this week. Since Thanksgiving, middle and high school students in have been on a hybrid schedule, like many students in parishes across Acadiana. "Parishes next to us, Acadia and Iberia, have been back since Christmas and St. [...]