This Is Home Fest is returning for its fifth year, featuring a celebration of food, music and community. This year’s festival will take place April 26 at the Civic Center in Lake Charles, according to a news release.

Fire crews are working to extinguish an early morning structure fire in Lake Charles. The Lake Charles Fire Department says the blaze is in The Shadow’s subdivision near Myrtle Grove off Prien Lake Road.

Areas of Southwest Louisiana broke all-time record lows overnight Tuesday that dated back to the late 1800s. “It was quite the historic event for us,” said National Weather Service Lake Charles Storm Warning Meteorologist Doug Cramer.

Lake Charles' lowest temperature on record is 3 degrees on Feb. 12, 1899. Records go back to 1895. We can thank clear skies, light wind and the snow for the frigid temperatures overnight.

Though NWS forecasters are still collecting official snowfall counts, these reports give a good look at just how much snow Louisiana saw.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - No arrests have been made after a child was shot at a south Lake Charles home. KPLC reporters visited the scene Monday evening after neighbors reported hearing gunshots in The Meadows apartment complex off Smith Road. Police had taped off a home near the corner of Lilly Lane and Orchard Grove.

In the last of a series of calls held by the office to help local officials make decisions on closures and emergency operations, Cramer pointed to some data showing “quite the historic event” in terms of weather.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state officials held a news briefing on Wednesday to update residents on the unprecedented weather event and its ongoing challenges.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A heavy police presence has been reported at the Meadows in South Lake Charles. A KPLC reporter spoke to residents of Lilly Lane and Orchard Grove, who said they heard gunshots in the area. Our crew also spotted several Lake Charles Police units and a home with caution tape around the front yard.

Joshua Wilson walks his dogs Caymus and Moose Tuesday, January 21, 2025, on Mall Street in Lafayette, La. For the first time ever, Lake Charles and much of Acadiana are under a blizzard warning as snow blankets the area Tuesday morning.

A National Weather Service office in Louisiana issued its first-ever blizzard warning on Tuesday amid snow and strong winds.