Browse through significant events in Southwest Louisiana history below. Find more This Day in History here.

“Sesame Street” launches its 56th season on Nov. 10 with NASCAR champion Bubba Wallace as a guest, a slightly tweaked format and a new way to watch — via Netflix. “There you are, hi,” Elmo invites ...

In a tiny town called Gibsland, Louisiana, sits a modest building that tells one of America’s most infamous crime stories – the Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum, where history bleeds into legend and ...

The aisles smell faintly of roasted coffee and bakery yeast, the kind of scent that belongs to a store that’s seen generations grow up around it. Neighbors greet each other by name as carts clatter ...

It’s unclear what percentage of LSU students would want a Kirk statue, but any such monument would be built against the will of a significant proportion of the LSU community.

Welcome to Rayne, Louisiana – a historic gem tucked away in Acadia Parish that most travelers zoom past on their way to somewhere else. This charming small town, about 15 miles west of Lafayette, ...