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Louisiana Public Broadcasting CEO Beth Courtney has announced plans to retire at the end of January.
Hayley Arceneaux rode in the West Feliciana High School homecoming parade Friday night for a distance quite a bit shorter than her last noteworthy trip.
A dump truck careened off the road while traveling southbound on U.S. 190 Friday, smashing into a pair of electrical transformers and sparking a fire that spread to a nearby warehouse and caused $1 million in damage.
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For Renata Payne, the decision to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ida was a no-brainer. Years of devastating storms had helped her develop a simple rule: “If it’s a Category 3, that’s when I leave.”
The St. Helena Parish Police Jury president wants to cancel the parish’s contract with Amwaste, the local residential waste-pickup utility, if the company can’t fix a slew of problems that became worse when Hurricane Ida swept through the parish o…
Ten high school marching band are set to compete Oct. 23 in the 15th annual Dutchtown High School Invitational Marching Band Festival.
Two contractors were "potentially exposed" to a substance at the BASF plant in Geismar Friday while working outdoors and were treated at the chemical plant by first responders, then transported to the hospital for further treatment, a plant spokes…
A Baton Rouge man accused of killing a bystander when he fired into a crowd of people watching a 2014 street brawl can receive a fair retrial from a judge who previously called him the "worst of the worst" type of person, one of the judge's collea…
Staffers will see 8% more in their pay envelope, probably as early as next week, after the Senate Executive Committee approved a pay bump on Friday.
They should be offered at least two months after immunization, advisers said.
Temperatures in southeast Louisiana are expected to take a dive this weekend.
An Independence man was arrested Thursday evening on rape counts in Livingston Parish — his second recent arrest stemming from a multi-parish child sex investigation.
Home sales in metro Baton Rouge were down by 15.4% in September, the third month there has been a year-to-year decrease in sales.
Louisiana is lagging behind the national average for paycheck protection loan forgiveness, but a recently introduced website looks to change those numbers.
A detailed analysis of what causes flooding in some Walker neighborhoods following heavy rainfalls and possible solutions to the problem was presented Oct. 11 to the City Council and administrators.
Five juvenile inmates escaped from the Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center Thursday night, Baton Rouge Police said.
Following a summer of tubing rescues and drownings on the Amite River, the Livingston Parish Council voted unanimously to approve new river safety rules to prevent further accidents.
Accused of killing his daycare owner ex-girlfriend, Livingston man convicted of second degree murder
A Livingston Parish man has been convicted of second degree murder in the killing of his ex-girlfriend, who ran a daycare.
A young man and a teenager were indicted Thursday in the Memorial Day slaying of a toddler, a teen and another young man at a Baton Rouge apartment pool.
In response to "numerous complaints" of fraud across Hurricane Ida relief programs, two of Louisiana's top and federal and state prosecutors want people who suspect they've been victimized by scammers to report those problems to the feds.
A Baton Rouge woman and postal worker in St. James Parish was sentenced to one year of probation after she had admitted to stealing $1,000 from someone's mail, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
From rural Louisiana towns to the State Capitol, officials and residents have often met a budding solar energy boom with concern or outrage.
The longtime head of the Baton Rouge Zoo, who has led an multi-million-dollar effort to revamp the animal park since failing to move it to a new location in 2018 and seeing it lose its longtime accreditation, will retire early next year.
State education leaders have delayed action on new social studies standards a second time amid off and on complaints on how the benchmarks would present the nation's racial history.
A Pennsylvania company plans to build a $4.5 billion clean energy facility in Ascension Parish that would be the state's first carbon capture project.
Two people were killed when a westbound sedan crossed the median on Interstate 10, vaulted cable barriers and collided with an oncoming 18-wheeler between Sorrento and Gramercy, Louisiana State Police said.
East Baton Rouge Parish homicides tied the record high set last year when a man was shot to death at his home on Hyacinth Avenue early Thursday, the latest life lost during an unprecedented streak of violence.
Gas prices in Baton Rouge are on the rise as pandemic restrictions lighten up and more people are getting out of the house.
The megaproject is expected to be operational in 2026.
SHREVEPORT, La. — The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room.
Police arrested Baton Rouge rapper Boosie Badazz, also known as Lil Boosie, in Atlanta on accusations of property damage at a concert, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
A week after six women filed a lawsuit accusing LSU of failing to properly investigate complaints of sexual misconduct against a former graduate student from France, LSU has removed the chair of the Department of French Studies, who is named as a …
A man was arrested Wednesday four months after fatally crashing into another driver, Baton Rouge police said.
School counseling and job training are front and center in the latest violence-prevention initiative unveiled in East Baton Rouge.
A car that ran into some utility poles Wednesday knocked out internet access for people across East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes, a Cox Communications spokesperson said.
East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is proposing a new fee to rake in steady funding to maintain drainage and prevent flooding.
A Louisiana State Police trooper was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in a fatal drunk-driving crash in Texas that took the life of a pedestrian, officials say.
SHREVEPORT, La. — The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room.
A Category 4 hurricane and its aftermath can traumatize anyone — especially kids. The howling wind and widespread devastation, along with the physical distance from friends because of an evacuation, can cause distress.
Police arrested Baton Rouge rapper Boosie Badazz, also known as Lil Boosie, in Atlanta on accusations of property damage at a concert, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
A week after six women filed a lawsuit accusing LSU of failing to properly investigate complaints of sexual misconduct against a former graduate student from France, LSU has removed the chair of the Department of French Studies, who is named as a …
A man was arrested Wednesday four months after fatally crashing into another driver, Baton Rouge police said.
School counseling and job training are front and center in the latest violence-prevention initiative unveiled in East Baton Rouge.
A car that ran into some utility poles Wednesday knocked out internet access for people across East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes, a Cox Communications spokesperson said.
East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is proposing a new fee to rake in steady funding to maintain drainage and prevent flooding.
A Louisiana State Police trooper was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in a fatal drunk-driving crash in Texas that took the life of a pedestrian, officials say.
About 10 weeks after former Gov. Edwin W. Edwards died, his widow had him dug up from a Baton Rouge cemetery so she could have him cremated.
A new COVID variant named B.1.630, first detected in the U.S. in March, has been sequenced by LSU in Shreveport. It is the first time the variant has been detected in the state of Louisiana.
A man died after the motorcycle he was driving veered off a state highway in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana State Police said Wednesday.