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A new study has been released of the "Most Depressed Cities in the U.S." and unfortunately, Louisiana has landed two inside of the Top 20.

If you can't make it out to the home for one of the open houses and want to see what it looks like, then here you go.

The 2023 hurricane season is rapidly approaching and now a low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico is being monitored by many in weather labs.

A bank was robbed in Lafayette this morning.

More information will be available as the Lafayette Police Department continues its investigation into the crash.

The suspect is accused of setting fire to a car next to a manufactured home in Scott, Louisiana.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - In Lafayette, we have our needs when it comes to traffic fixes. And, our Lafayette Consolidated Government's Traffic Department has been hard at work improving roadways and bridges across the parish with projects involving such heavily-traveled roads such as Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Dulles Drive, Johnston Street, Kaliste Saloom Road, Pinhook Road, and others. There

LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) - On Friday, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team and the Washington Huskies will meet in the Seattle Super Regional with a trip to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on the line. ...

Several teens from Louisiana are on Senior trip in the Bahamas and now one young person is missing.

Circle K has announced that they are taking 40 cents off the price of gasoline this Thursday. d

KATC reports that the Rayne Police Department has arrested a man in connection to human remains being left at a local church.

Parents of a child at a Lafayette daycare center filed a report alleging she physically abused their child.

The Lafayette Police Department was dispatched to the area of Louisiana Avenue at Tenth Street on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, shortly after 7:15 pm in reference to a report of a shooting in progress.

De La Paz was indicted last week on a charge of attempted production of child pornography related to a leaked video on social media in late April.

If you travel west on West Congress in Lafayette, heading towards Rue du Belier, you should be on high alert.

In the ever-evolving restaurant scene in Lafayette, it looks like there is something new, cool, and different coming to an old location.

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office confirms that two small planes, crop dusters, collided with each other on Monday morning.

He was arrested earlier this month in Lafayette Parish after a video of him making sexual advances to a student in Vermilion Parish leaked on social media.

We continue with our "Shaking Out the Good Stuff" feature, presented by Morton Salt, by telling you about a friend of ours who continues to need everyone's help.

New Iberia Police discovered the body of a 97-year-old woman at her home in the 600 block of East Pershing Street.