Evangeline News

The new Opelousas Civic Center, set to open on Creswell Lane later this year, has an official name and is already receiving bookings.

Pixel Magic could have opened another digital media studio anywhere. Locations in Pennsylvania and New Mexico were possibilities.

This weekend, a crowd of 10,000-plus is expected in Plaisance, a St. Landry Parish village on Hwy.

Every school system in Acadiana plans to offer the H1N1 vaccine to students, but not for at least another month.

The Southwest Center for Rural Initiatives will be hosting a series of meetings throughout its 10-parish region to explain the earned income tax credit.

Hathaway native Amber Comeaux will travel throughout the state for the next 12 months to promote Southwest Louisiana's top crop - rice.

There is much our community has to be proud of. There is a deep strength of our culture that makes this a special place to live.

State police say a 53-year-old Lafayette man died in a single-vehicle accident in Evangeline Parish, about five miles south of Cheneyville.

Bus drivers who are charged with drug- or alcohol-related driving incidents will be suspended with pay until a substance-abuse professional deems them capable of returning to work, according to a policy unanimously approved by the Lafayette Parish School Board on Wednesday.

Many students entering kindergarten can look forward to graduating with the same students they started school with.

EVANGELINE - Evangeline Elementary School was evacuated after a natural gas well blew out near the school Thursday.

Thousands of Hollywood hopefuls flocked to the Cajundome on Sunday for an open casting call for the Disney film Secretariat.

We heard from Disney Filmmakers at the news conference today. This is the first time since the studio announced plans to shoot the film secretariat in Acadiana.

Lafayette's unique mixture of technology, hospitality, business incentives and physical landscape made it the ideal place for production of the Disney film Secretariat, movie executives said Thursday.

Recent increases in unemployment are straining the resources of Louisiana's food banks.

Superintendent of Schools Toni Hamlin had good news Wednesday for the Evangeline Parish School Board about LEAP test results.

The St. Landry Parish School Board recently received $1.25 million to be used for vocational education at high schools and high school career centers in the parish.

Jeff Kleinpeter of Kleinpeter Dairy will reign as the 64th Annual Louisiana Yambilee King during the festival Oct.

Things will get a little salty at this year's Zydeco Festival in Plaisance, as the city celebrates the music and culture of zydeco.

The Louisiana Department of Education says that 29 of the state's worst-performing schools improved enough since last year to get out of the "academically unacceptable" group.