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The Eunice News will publish free announcements for candidates in the special city election for mayor and Ward 4 Board of Alderman member.
The announcements are biographical only and limited to 400 words. They will contain no campaign promises, pledges or references to other candidates. That material should be included in paid political advertising.

Twice as many sitting legislators lost their election bids in the runoff this month as compared to the primary races in October, but the increase doesn’t quite signal a last minute anti-incumbent sentiment among voters in 2015.

Heavy rain at the beginning of the planting season and a drought during the growing season did not do any favors for the state’s soybean farmers, including those in St. Landry Parish.

LAFAYETTE – The Richard Guidry Cajun and Creole Language Fund, a fund at Community Foundation of Acadiana, is accepting grant proposals that foster or extend the growth of the French language in public discourse, the arts or education.

Louisiana deer hunters who hunt lands in the state’s Deer Management Assistance Program are harvesting older bucks, and the state leads the nation in the harvest of bucks over 3.5 years of age.