After repeatedly voicing concerns that the Baton Rouge police chief has weaponized the BRPD internal discipline process to unfairly punish officers who disagree with him, a veteran cop was recently demoted from sergeant to corporal and suspended f…
Houses are going up in a new subdivision in the Tiger Bend Road area in Baton Rouge, but the area has been a community before.
Doctors at Baton Rouge General Hospital are testing a nasal spray to see if it prevents people from contracting COVID-19.
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Without a dissenting vote, the Louisiana Legislature approved a push to trim the staggering number of young students who cannot read and named it after the late Steve Carter, a former representative himself who championed the cause.
A Baton Rouge man accused of fatally shooting an Allstate financial planner in 2017 and threatening a witness will have to be retried because a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict Saturday and a judge declared a mistrial.
Hundreds of people braved the sweltering summer heat to celebrate Juneteenth at Gus Young Park Saturday afternoon after missing the previous year's festivities because of the pandemic.
Two years ago, when regulators gave Entergy Louisiana the green light to buy power from a new utility-scale solar plant in West Baton Rouge Parish, the power company’s CEO hailed it as a win for customers and for the environment.
RISE St. James marks Black emancipation, denounces additional industry in River Parishes
Authorities arrested at least four people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge, booking them into parish prison between noon Thursday and noon Saturday.
WALKER — Rain fell in the Baton Rouge area but largely spared the capital region from flooding and other damage after a brew of thunderstorms and wind swirled in from the Gulf of Mexico before coalescing overnight into Tropical Storm Claudette.
U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a "teaching document" that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, for receiving Communion despite supporting abortion rights.
A 28-year-old thrown from his motorcycle after striking a concrete curb in Ascension Parish earlier this week died Saturday in a local hospital, Louisiana State Police said.
Storm dumped almost a foot of rain in parts of St. Tammany Parish
Louisiana is increasing the compensation available to people who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes.
Louisiana's iconic bald cypress trees will be protected on state-owned property, after Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a new law banning the trees' harvesting on more than 1 million acres (404,685 hectares) of state land.
The National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning for much of southeastern Louisiana as unsettled weather approaches the Gulf Coast.
GONZALES — Ascension became the second Baton Rouge-area parish this week to halt new development as the aftermath of the May flash floods prompted leaders to take a closer look at growth and put aside, at least for now, concerns of the robust home…
Fingerprints found on a cigar wrapper inside a slain Allstate financial planner's stolen truck in August 2017 belonged to the Baton Rouge man who is accused of killing him, a State Police analyst testified Friday.
All of Louisiana's tax assessors can now give themselves car allowances up to 15% of their salaries, under a bill signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards that will authorize the parish officials to pocket an extra $20,000 or more annually.
The passenger count at Baton Rouge's Metro Airport in May was the highest since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with 54,625 passengers passing through.
The LSU Board of Supervisors narrowly approved a resolution Friday asking the Louisiana Department of Health to add the COVID vaccines to the list of shots required before students can attend public schools, colleges, and universities.
The capital region braced for potential howling winds and heavy rains Friday as a disorganized system of storms in the Gulf of Mexico crept toward Louisiana’s coast with the possibility of becoming a tropical storm ahead of an expected landfall ov…
One person died in a car crash Thursday night near Harding Boulevard, Baton Rouge Police said.
No matter which railroad business may be permitted to acquire Kansas City Southern, both companies have now indicated that a Baton Rouge to New Orleans passenger rail service would be a priority.
A young man was killed and his friend arrested on a count of negligent homicide after admitting to playing with a gun when it accidentally discharged Thursday night, according to Baton Rouge police.
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As music from a playlist named “celebration” echoed off the walls of Baton Rouge Generals’ Mid City campus early Friday morning, memories of the hospital’s 2015 closure and the COVID-19 pandemic were far from the minds of the gathered healthcare w…
BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. John Bel Edwards is shutting down state offices early Friday, giving workers a half-day off in honor of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
GONZALES — With a potent tropical disturbance gathering force in the Gulf of Mexico, Ascension became the second Baton Rouge-area parish in two days to adopt some kind of halt on new development as the aftermath of the May flash floods has prompte…
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday narrowly approved Texas-based Great Hearts to start a classically oriented charter school, but rejected two other applicants.
Authorities arrested at least three people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge, booking them into parish prison between noon Sunday and noon Thursday.
One person is dead in a shooting near Perkins Road by LSU, Baton Rouge Police said.
Fourteen cash prizes and scholarships will be doled out in a lottery exclusive to Louisiana residents who have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Thursday.
After a federal judge blocked a presidential order to pause federal lease sales in the Gulf, oil field workers found themselves breathing a little easier this week while executives and energy analysts still foresee rough waters as the Biden admini…
A Baton Rouge man accused in the 2017 robbery-related slaying of an Allstate employee implicated himself in the homicide and then told a female friend she would "regret it" if she didn't keep silent, the woman told a jury Thursday.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Dr. Ghali E. Ghali announced Thursday afternoon that he would resign, effectively immediately, as head of the medical school in Shreveport, just a day after he was reinstated to the post.
A local attorney sued the Baton Rouge Police Department earlier this week claiming officers used excessive force during a welfare check, which escalated after a profane outburst from the lawyer and ended with him handcuffed to a hospital bed recei…
It’s one of those heat-of-the-moment statements Louisiana Association of Business & Industry’s president Stephen Waguespack probably wishes he could take back.
Baton Rouge police are asking the public to help find a man with "vital information" about a shooting that took place two months ago on Greenwell Springs Road.
Authorities arrested at least three people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge, booking them into parish prison between noon Sunday and noon Thursday.
One person is dead in a shooting near Perkins Road by LSU, Baton Rouge Police said.
Fourteen cash prizes and scholarships will be doled out in a lottery exclusive to Louisiana residents who have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Thursday.
System to be named Claudette when it reaches tropical storm force before landfall near Morgan City
A Louisiana woman who went viral after she used Gorilla Glue spray in her hair to make it hold is launching her own haircare line after surgery and a months-long recovery process to regrow her hair.
After a federal judge blocked a presidential order to pause federal lease sales in the Gulf, oil field workers found themselves breathing a little easier this week while executives and energy analysts still foresee rough waters as the Biden admini…
A Baton Rouge man accused in the 2017 robbery-related slaying of an Allstate employee implicated himself in the homicide and then told a female friend she would "regret it" if she didn't keep silent, the woman told a jury Thursday.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor Dr. Ghali E. Ghali announced Thursday afternoon that he would resign, effectively immediately, as head of the medical school in Shreveport, just a day after he was reinstated to the post.
A tropical storm warning has been issued for southeastern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast ahead of a system making its way to the region this weekend, forecasters said Thursday afternoon.
A local attorney sued the Baton Rouge Police Department earlier this week claiming officers used excessive force during a welfare check, which escalated after a profane outburst from the lawyer and ended with him handcuffed to a hospital bed recei…
It’s one of those heat-of-the-moment statements Louisiana Association of Business & Industry’s president Stephen Waguespack probably wishes he could take back.
Oil company acquired it in mid-1970s, says 'museum ownership is not part of our core business'