In partnership with The Acadiana Advocate, the705 is recognizing its annual Top 20 Under 40 Acadiana Leadership Award honorees, presented by Advancial Federal Credit Union. Honorees will be recognized at a May 2 banquet. For tickets, visit bit.ly/20under40for2025. Lore Linton is executive director of the Children’s Museum of Acadiana. Tell me about your life growing up. Where are you from, and who were your biggest influences on your life? I was born in Houston, but my parents moved back home to Lafayette when I was 2 because, as we all...

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be bringing hundreds of musicians and bands to the Fair Grounds starting Thursday, April 24. And while the fest is undoubtedly the big focus for the next week and a half, there are hundreds more performances going on at venues across New Orleans, filling the nights and the days between festival weekends with music. Below is a round-up of shows happening Thursday, April 24, through Sunday, May 4, from special collaborations among locals, touring bands stopping in town, jam sessions, mini-festivals and...

Humming with the familiar sounds of machinery and cluttered with stacks of waste waiting to be discarded, the rear of New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center looks like an industrial loading dock fitting for a facility that dates back to the 1980s. But the building's color-coded recycling system tells a different story — one of a more modern system of waste disposal and massive recycling operation that have earned the Convention Center a sustainability certification that few facilities of a similar size have. “It very much is new meets...

Devon Allman’s "Blues Summit U.S. Tour" will open Aug. 7 at the Raising Cane's River Center in Baton Rouge. Allman and Ruf Records announced the tour along with the release of a new album titled "Blues Summit," due out this summer. Allman, 52, has been immersed in the world of blues and rock his entire life. As the son of the legendary Gregg Allman, he grew up surrounded by the rich musical legacy of the Allman Brothers Band, a group that played a pivotal role in shaping the Southern rock...

On April 12, Baker Chamber of Commerce members, Baker City Council members Desiree Collins and Charles Vincent, the National Guard Youth Job Challenge Program and community members helped collect 15 bags of litter and seven bags of recycling in the Keep Baker Beautiful Spring Community Clean Up Event. The city of Baker's Public Works Department led by Calvin Jyles disposed of the collected litter bags. This year Keep Baker Beautiful was able to collect recyclable plastic bottles and aluminum cans through support from Osprey recycling initiative. Waste Pro USA provided...

ROCKING: The next free Rockin' the Rails concert, will feature the Pontchartrain Shakers and their medley of down-home music, from swamp blues to jazz and soul, at the Covington Trailhead from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on April 24. Bring chairs and blankets for seating. SOUL: The upcoming free Bayou Jam concert, featuring Lauren Murphy and the Psychedelics, is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on April 27 in Heritage Park, 1701 Bayou Lane, in Slidell. Concertgoers can bring their chairs and blankets for seating; food and beverages available...

Heavy rains soaked the New Orleans metro area Monday, overwhelming local drainage systems, filling roadways with water and knocking out power to a few thousand residents.

Though the floodwaters were starting to drain in some areas by 7:30 p.m., flash flooding caused road closures and car accidents across the city and in Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes.

Here are some photos and videos of flooding from around the metro area:

Water was rising on many streets in the New Orleans metro area Monday after several hours of heavy rain overtook local drainage systems, particularly on the West Bank. New Orleans' flood map lit up with more than 20 reports of street flooding across the city Monday afternoon, and National Weather Service forecasters reported up to 6 inches of rain in some parts of the West Bank. Though flooding reports were scattered across the city, many were clustered in the Lower 9th Ward and Algiers, where city rain gauges reported totals...

BOSSIER CITY SUBDIVISION, LOTS 6A, 10A, 11, 12A, SQUARE 5: Mary D. Burns, Roy K. Burns Jr., James M. Burns and others to Wayne T. Prats, $30,000. MARIA AVE. 405: Jason Brown and Alisa Brown to Joshua Bullard and Rebekah Bullard, $257,800. NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Thomas Bohnenstiehl and Rhonda P. Bohnenstiehl to Scott A. Bohnenstiehl and Jordan T. Bohnenstiehl, donation, no value stated. ST. CHARLES COURT 144: Daniel Lew to Patricia H. Davis Lew revocable trust, donation, no value stated. JOHN W. MOORE AVE. 3326: Usheeka W....