The town serves as the gateway to the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, a sprawling 23,000-acre wetland ecosystem that showcases Louisiana’s natural heritage in all its wild glory.

The natural environment surrounding Jean Lafitte isn’t just beautiful – it’s extraordinary. The town serves as an unofficial gateway to the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, a ...

The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris can accept a new “Americano-French musical.” The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris ...

Ouachita Parish residents will soon power their homes and businesses with electricity produced at a solar farm near Monroe, as more clean energy production tied to Meta’s $10 billion data center in ...

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Providence Community Housing, alongside VPG Holdings and the Housing Authority of New Orleans, announced plans to rehabilitate the historic Lafitte building and construct 45 new affordable rental ...

With the BirdyFish Race resting its dolly on the sands of SkyBeach Resort, we watch as Tampa Bay glasses-off. With our Boat of the Year testing session on weather pause, we head to a beachside thatch ...

LAFITTE, La. (WVUE) - One person is dead and two others were transported to a local hospital, one with serious injuries, after an airboat collided with a mooring line in the Intracoastal Waterway near ...

Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a series compiled by Marie Hughes, director of the Chambers County Museum at Wallisville. The first part is linked below. “I was headed offshore the day before Allison ...

Timothy Kerner Jr. sits in his makeshift Jean Lafitte Town Hall office. His voice is hoarse, the words seeming to spill out faster than he can control them. “Biden was sitting here just like me and ...

Pirate, privateer and slave smuggler Jean Lafitte is a notorious outlaw in Louisiana. Today, he’s the inspiration for characters in multiple novels, the namesake of both Lafitte and a national ...

ABBEVILLE, KATC - After several months of construction, the new fishing pier at Lafitte Drive-in Park in Abbeville is open to the public. Visitors with a fishing license have an opportunity to reel in ...