BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) -- The Louisiana Secretary of State has released sample ballots for the upcoming April 24 election, and you can download the ballot for your parish below. The deadline to register to vote through the GeauxVote Online Registration System is April 3. Early voting is April 10-17 (excluding Sunday, April 11) from 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. The deadline to request an [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- The Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana National Guard announced several vaccination events across Acadiana over the next couple of weeks. The following locations will offer the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen single-dose vaccine: April 10: Breaux Bridge Sydnie Mae Durand Senior Center, 391 Cannery Rd., 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (closed [...]
A seven-member committee is examining whether it's best for the city of Lafayette to operate independently of the parish. They are charged with answering 14 questions to determine if Lafayette and its citizens would be better served by having a mayor over just the city. A recent election established a separate city and parish council, [...]
BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) - On Friday morning, the Cajun Navy joined in the search for a missing Opelousas teen. 19-year-old Kori Gauthier, was declared missing after her car was found abandoned on the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton Rouge Thursday morning. She was last seen when she was reportedly headed to LSU campus on [...]
Thursday, the Lafayette Board of Zoning decided whether to uphold an appeal against a short-term rental property operating in a single-family residential neighborhood. Citizens on both sides of this feud surrounding one Airbnb on Poinsetta Drive believed the outcome could set precedent for every other short-term rental in the city. No part in the Lafayette [...]
OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) -- Opelousas Police have arrested two men in connection to a deadly shooting in January. Police say they got a tip in March about what happened the night of the murder, and who was allegedly involved. One of the suspects was caught in Acadiana, the other caught in Las Vegas. "I'm not [...]
NEW IBERIA, La. (KLFY) -- A New Iberia man is behind bars on a lengthy list of charges after the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office arrested him this morning for a home invasion in the 1800 block of Wanda St. Dwight Williams, 36, of New Iberia, faces the following charges from this morning's arrest, including: Terrorizing [...]
GIBSON, La. (KLFY) -- The remains of a man found in Gibson in late February have been positively identified as being those of Lafayette man who has been missing since 2019, according to Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet. Jake Menard, 36, of Lafayette, was reported missing to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office in November 2019. [...]
BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) -- Bossier detectives need your help finding a teenager who has been missing since February. According to the Bossier City Police Juvenile Division, 16-year-old Kayla Koeplin ran away from Johnny Gray Jones Youth Shelter on 4815 Shed Rd. back on Feb. 28. Police said Kayla has ties to the Alexandria and [...]
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- If you have certain types of debris or electronics that don't easily fit in your trash can or curbside, you'll be able to drop them off at Cajun Field on April 17 from 8 a.m. to noon. LCG is working Republic Services, as well as with electronic recycling management company MRM [...]