The Daily Iberian New Iberia LA

The Daily Iberian is a community newspaper serving the Teche Area.

The Daily Iberian can trace its roots back to 1893, when it published its first issue on February 9 of that year. S.P. Watts was its first editor and in that first issue wrote, “It will be our endeavor to give a faithful chronology of the daily happenings of the city of New Iberia, the land known as the Attakapas, and the general news of the whole country.” In the first issues that February, Watts wrote several editorials about the need to improve roads in the area around New Iberia, “…on the road leading to St. Martinville is a mud hole that is impassable, persons coming to the place, must of necessity turn to seek another road to town. This should not be allowed to remain there.”