LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, the southbound lanes of Lake Street, between Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive and Sallier Street, will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian ...

The Powerball jackpot is nearly $1 billion after there was no winner during the last drawing. The jackpot has grown to an estimated $975 million, with a cash value of $422.3 million, following ...

Three teens who were arrested in a string of vehicle burglaries in Allen Parish are also facing charges in Calcasieu.

When standard CPR isn’t enough, doctors are using an advanced approach to give some of the sickest patients a chance.

The fall semester is already underway at SOWELA Technical Community College, but it’s not too late to register.

The extended 10-day forecast shows no relief in sight. This hot, humid, dry weather pattern is expected to continue through ...

Our unsettled pattern is slowly pushing out, and a hot and dry forecast is set to move in as we round out the week and head towards the weekend.

Five Southwest Louisiana residents are among several people accused of stealing from a vacant building off I-10 near Crowley.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a Sulphur man on charges for crimes against nature. Boyce Ledger, 57, was booked into the Beauregard Parish Jail on Aug. 4 with ...

If deported, her husband says his wife Maisa Lopes Eliaser could be separated from her husband and son for at least 10 years while waiting to reapply for entry into the U.S.

As a new school year gets underway in Vernon Parish, classrooms are seeing major changes under the leadership of a new superintendent.