Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, including in Baton Rouge, outnumbered by troops and police brought in to prevent a repeat of the viole…
Jan. 17 update: A boil water advisory has been lifted for parts of Donaldsonville residents after water samples were taken from a main link.
Though law enforcement feared reports of hundreds showing up at each of the 50 state capitols to support President Donald Trump ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, few came on a sunny Sunday in Baton Rouge.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Federal officials have changed their guidance to states for distributing and administering the coronavirus vaccine, but that doesn't mean Louisiana is rushing more of its residents to the front of the line for shot eligibility.
In a letter read this weekend at masses across the Diocese of Baton Rouge, Bishop Michael G. Duca commended parishioners for following health guidelines during the pandemic but said the coronavirus is still surging so "instead of relaxing our guar…
A second person from Louisiana has been arrested in connection with the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 as police continue to identify people involved in the breach of the building.
Congressman Garret Graves has announced that his father died from the coronavirus.
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 3,536 more confirmed coronavirus cases in its noon update Sunday.
$500,000 federal grant aims to reduce plastic at Louisiana festivals, parades
A man was shot to death in Baton Rouge Saturday night.
A group of deer wasn’t scared away by the shorter-than-expected test firing of four RS-25 rocket engines Saturday at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.
Many were cheered by industry, coastal advocates but opposed by environment, health interests
Louisiana’s first dogs congratulated President-elect Joe Biden’s dogs, Champ and Major, on their ‘indoguration’ Sunday.
The Pelican State Portfolio, a group of Louisiana stocks tracked by the newspaper, largely performed better than the broader markets during the fourth quarter and for 2020, thanks to a positive run for bank and mid-cap stocks.
Baton Rouge area
One day after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, demonstrators held a drive-by protest outside of the East Baton Rouge Parish jail to call for accountability for deaths of inmates.
A new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been found in Louisiana, state health officials said Saturday.
A 32-year-old Covington man was shot and killed while he was attempting to rob a home in Prairieville early Saturday, the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office said. A man and a woman who allegedly accompanied him during the robbery have been arrested.
A former Baton Rouge teenager accused of beating his girlfriend's 8-month-old daughter to death in 2017 was scheduled to stand trial next month.
Authorities arrested at least five people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into parish prison between noon Monday and noon Friday, booked records show.
Just hours after winning the job, newly appointed East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent Sito Narcisse flew in from Washington D.C. and went on a whirlwind tour of a community he said he intends to learn quite well.
A corrections cadet at Louisiana State Penitentiary is accused of attempting to smuggle ecstasy pills, fentanyl and more than two dozen cellphones, among other items, into the prison.
An energy technology company is investing $40 million to develop an industrial facility in St. Rose that will recycle mining waste into a proprietary fuel product.
BAYOU L’OURSE — An Assumption Parish man who raped a 10-year-old girl nearly a year and a half ago and had been at large for a time was captured and arrested Thursday night at his home, parish sheriff's deputies said.
Ochsner Health System, Louisiana's largest, said it will delay vaccine appointments for thousands of patients after receiving zero new doses in its regular shipment this week, complicating the health system’s mass vaccination plan that has more th…
BREC’s Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center plans to host its second annual Swamp Art Spectacular exhibition beginning this weekend.
President-elect Joe Biden's proposal to boost the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour reignited arguments Friday in Louisiana on whether an increase makes sense.
Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, known as BREW, is hosting its annual business conference online next week.
GONZALES — Robert Poche', Ascension Parish's registrar of voters for nearly 40 years, is expected to retire at the end of the month.
Louisiana Citizens insurance sheds more policies to private market; curbs hurricane damage liability
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-sponsored insurance business which covers homes and businesses no other insurer will, shed more policies despite several hurricanes which swept across the Gulf Coast.
The two largest banks in Louisiana ranked by total deposits trimmed a combined 34 branch locations during 2020, with fewer customers visiting bank branches and doing more banking online and some branch consolidations cited as reasons.
An LSU board of supervisors member asked Friday whether the university could explore severing its relationship with Rouses Supermarkets over co-owner Donald Rouse Sr.'s attendance at a protest in Washington D.C. last week that turned violent when …
NAPOLEONVILLE — A Houma man wanted in a November drive-by shooting outside Napoleonville was arrested Thursday night in the Assumption Parish town, deputies said.
Solar energy farm builders will now need to submit their plans before building in West Baton Rouge Parish after the parish council approved a measure Thursday that would give them more oversight on those projects.
Sito Narcisse, chief of secondary schools in Washington, D.C., was chosen as East Baton Rouge Parish superintendent Thursday night, edging out the local favorite, interim Superintendent Adam Smith.
One person was transported to the hospital with injuries after a shooting was reported late Thursday afternoon off North Foster Drive, officials said.
After a slow start, Louisiana’s decision to make vaccines available to people aged 70 and older has kicked the mass COVID-19 vaccination effort into a higher gear, with more than 170,000 people receiving at least one shot.
ST. FRANCISVILLE — The newly elected mayor and members of the Board of Alderman held their first meeting Tuesday, continuing where the previous administration left off to rehabilitate the town’s sewage treatment plant.
A Baton Rouge teenager accused of fatally shooting an elderly woman during a botched 2019 burglary at her home near Tiger Bend and Antioch roads will stand trial Sept. 20, a judge decided Thursday.
Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, known as BREW, is hosting its annual business conference online next week.
GONZALES — Robert Poche', Ascension Parish's registrar of voters for nearly 40 years, is expected to retire at the end of the month.
Louisiana Citizens insurance sheds more policies to private market; curbs hurricane damage liability
Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-sponsored insurance business which covers homes and businesses no other insurer will, shed more policies despite several hurricanes which swept across the Gulf Coast.
The two largest banks in Louisiana ranked by total deposits trimmed a combined 34 branch locations during 2020, with fewer customers visiting bank branches and doing more banking online and some branch consolidations cited as reasons.
An LSU board of supervisors member asked Friday whether the university could explore severing its relationship with Rouses Supermarkets over co-owner Donald Rouse Sr.'s attendance at a protest in Washington D.C. last week that turned violent when …
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,103 more confirmed coronavirus cases in its noon update Friday.
Barely half the size it was in 1959, it's regularly flooded by high tide that threatens nests
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked retired U.S. Army Lt. General Russel Honoré of Baton Rouge to lead a review of security at the United States Capitol after a deadly riot last week.
NAPOLEONVILLE — A Houma man wanted in a November drive-by shooting outside Napoleonville was arrested Thursday night in the Assumption Parish town, deputies said.
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina are falling behind in coronavirus vaccination efforts, while Louisiana has sped up their efforts.
Laura Fisher has been a Girl Scout for seven years, so she knows what happens when cookie season rolls around.
Ex-military members and cops were among those present at the Capitol riots last week.