Newly elected Mayor Marshall Simien Jr. said he wants to instead upgrade the existing Arcade Amphitheatre, which is located ...

A swearing-in ceremony for Mayor-elect Marshall Simien Jr. and the new Lake Charles City Council will be held at 6:30 p.m.

Come July, Marshall Simien will be mayor of one of Louisiana's largest cities. His journey from Lake Charles as a child to college to law school to a successful career as an attorney and a ...

In just a few weeks, the city will be under new leadership when Hunter passes the torch to Mayor-elect Marshall Simien.

Lake Charles is the latest city in Louisiana to follow a trend of ousting an incumbent mayor, with voters electing Marshall Simien Jr. over the weekend as the city’s first elected Black mayor ...

Earlier this month, the election of independent Marshall Simien, Jr. as mayor of Lake Charles marked a curious deviation from ...

Hunter has held the mayor seat in Lake Charles since 2017. However, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State 's ...

A Baton Rouge newspaper is reporting that Simien “plans to scrap” the downtown amphitheater project, but Simien told KPLC ...

Marshall Simien Jr. unseated two-term Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter in a contentious runoff election Saturday, May 3. Saturday’s results are complete but unofficial from the Secretary of State’s ...

The city announced on May 9 that Diers, who is currently the city administrator for Charles City, had accepted an offer to ...

The city of Chicago continues to prosecute protesters, despite mounting court losses and little punishment for those found ...