Lafayette LA

Did your home or business flood yesterday? Lafayette parish residents or business owners who sustained damages due to the "recent flooding  event" should  contact  the  Lafayette  Office of  Homeland Security  and  Emergency  Preparedness at (337) 291-5075 to report their damages...

If you have a hometown, there's probably, by now, a Facebook page or group for it. If you are a member of that page/group, and, if you are like me, your email has probably gotten overloaded with "Notifications" from Facebook about a new post on the Lafayette Memories page...

This week on my show I was talking about the roundabouts (traffic circles) in Acadiana, and how I was stuck behind a lady who was not aware of the proper way to treat a roundabout.  (She was driving a Chevrolet Equinox.  She lives in Youngsville.  She needs to go back to drivers' ed.)

According to a new study released by Bloomberg Businessweek, Lafayette, Louisiana ranks among the Top 10 Best Affordable Places to Live. The Hub City in the Heart of Cajun Country comes in at #9. Here is the full list of the Top 10...

Louisiana is among the most dangerous states in the nation for pedestrians, ranking 3rd out of the 50 states researched, a new report released by Transportation for America shows. Over the ten years from 2000 to 2009, 1,040 Louisianans were killed while walking. Here's the map showing where the fatalities have occurred in Lafayette.

Well, it's that time of year again. It's Festival International 2011! One of the biggest festivals of the year here in Lafayette, it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of all the action. That's why the Festival has their own mobile app for iPhone and Android users.

If your regular garbage or recycling collection day is Friday, you will receive service on Good Friday. For those persons in the cities of Lafayette and Carencro, and in unincorporated areas of  Lafayette Parish, excess garbage outside of the automated cart will be collected  next week if it is bagged, and each bag does not exceed 35 pounds...

The disco dance floor on this Air New Zealand plane looks just like the one at  'The Sting.'  Remember that place?  It was before JR's and Colors Concert Connection and after the Grocery store on Johnston St. in Lafayette.

High price of gas got you down?  I paid $3.48 per gallon for regular yesterday in Opelousas, LA.  Last week I paid $3.39.  I decided it was time to check out the gas prices statewide and across the nation.

Laissez les bon temps roulez! Here are a few pictures of our Krewe during the Independent Parade in Lafayette this afternoon.  A little rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits today!

The SyFy Channel Movie “Weather Wars,” set for release this July is being filmed here in Lafayette, LA.