On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor issued the long-awaited new rules on status for executive, administrative and professional exemption from overtime. Under the final regulations, effective on Dec ...

With the district attorney and consolidated government walking away with what amounts to a truce, the nagging issues of consolidation in Lafayette Parish will remain unresolved ...

GBB Properties Two and DBR Properties accuse Stirling/CBL/Ambassador Infrastructure of scrimping on road and drainage work at the 58-acre site ...

Recent court filings suggest negotiations to sell the property and pay off the mortgage could be in the works ...

Gerald Castille paid his dues as a bus driver, but when the St. Martin Parish School Board re-assigned him to inarguably the worst route in the parish, he sued ...

When it comes to tax collections, state policymakers are constantly faced with hard choices about what’s fair and effective for collecting taxes from fellow citizens ...

You’re recently divorced and finally getting your life back together — ready to move out of the apartment you’ve been living in with your kids into a home with a yard. After touring dozens of homes with your Realtor, you finally find the perfect ...

At the Lafayette Parish Bar Association office on Johnston Street during the lunch hour on March 9, more than three dozen attorneys, many of them civil-law lawyers with no professional experience in criminal law, got a crash course in criminal defense ...

Sasol North America Inc., a subsidiary of the South African company planning — but currently scaling back due to plummeting oil prices — a $14 billion gasto-liquid plant in the Lake Charles area, stands to get a little more than $740,000 back from ...

U.S. District Judge Richard Haik's decision to retire under a Democratic president paved the way for a Dem to replace him, but confirmation could be a long way off ...