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TaD’s Louisiana Cooking, which has other locations in Louisiana and Texas, will open a Youngsville location near Sugar Mill Pond, the company announced. The company bought The company bought property on the south side of the traffic circle at Bonin Road and Milton Avenue from the Sugar Mill Development for $605,000, according to records filed with the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court.

BATON ROUGE – In 2018, it was only one-sixth of a penny that divided legislators over how much of an expiring penny of sales tax to extend before they compromised on 0.45%. Now, Louisiana residents on both sides of the aisle think they are paying too much in sales taxes, as indicated by new data from the LSU Public Policy Research Lab.

Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives are receiving complaints parishwide of 4-wheeler, dirt bike and utility trailers thefts. One stolen 4-wheeler is described as a Honda 420 Rancher, red in color with a custom light bar, ITP mud tires and a manual shift.

Tri-Parish unemployment rates are down from January, but remain up from a year ago, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. The employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics were released Tuesday.

OPEOUSAS — In a rare public rebuke, St. Landry Parish School Board member Mary Ellen Donatto was sharply critical of Superintendent Patrick Jenkins about his proposal to keep Washington Elementary open.

Roger Young, who served 32 years on the St. Landry Parish School Board, and started a career in education in 1949, died on Sunday.

Over the past year, local journalism has been more important — and more needed — than ever. From the COVID-19 pandemic to the reignited social justice movement to the explosive 2020 U.S. presidential election and its aftermath, people have been turning to news publishers, day in and day out, to keep them up to date on how the changes happening around the world affect their daily lives. However, while news has been more in-demand than at any time in recent history, news publishers have been struggling more than ever.

Our courts need your help. As judges across our state return to conducting jury trials, we are asking you to answer the call to serve as a juror. Our system of having matters judged by jurors of our peers is one of the enduring institutions of our democracy, and fulfilling your duty as jurors has never been more important. As jurors we are called upon to resolve differences between persons within our communities as well as to determine criminal responsibility.

After the epic poem “Evangeline,” the best-known rhyme about the Cajun country might be Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya,” even if nobody who’s ever lived on any Louisiana bayou ever called anyone else “ma cher amio.”

He may not be the fastest president on his feet we’ve ever had. He may bore you to death compared to the last president.