Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome is granting local businesses a 30-day extension to pay their sales tax remittance to the city-parish as many continue to struggle due to shutdowns and state restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus.
Only seven parishes in Louisiana still have the ability to keep bars open for indoor service, after Gov. John Bel Edwards rolled back coronavirus restrictions and put the state in a modified version of Phase 2.
High school athletic events, including the start of the football playoffs this weekend, will continue under Gov. John Bel Edwards' latest coronavirus restrictions, but they will happen under tighter capacity limits and social distancing measures t…
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The Louisiana Department of Health reported 1,023 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 27 more confirmed deaths in its noon update Wednesday.
This Thanksgiving, Gov. John Bel Edwards plans to serve his homemade mustard greens, picked straight from his garden, and cornbread, but not to the nearly 90 extended family and friends he normally celebrates the holidays with at the Governor's Mansion.
Louisiana will move back to a modified version of Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions on Wednesday, just before Thanksgiving.
Facing a surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations ahead of Thanksgiving, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday said he would move Louisiana back into a modified version of Phase 2, ordering many bars to close and most businesses back to 50% occu…
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,120 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 33 more confirmed deaths in its noon update Tuesday.
Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to address the latest slate of coronavirus restrictions for Louisiana ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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The Louisiana Department of Health reported 970 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 24 more deaths in its noon update Monday.
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The Louisiana Department of Health reported 3,085 more confirmed coronavirus cases and 27 more deaths in its noon update Sunday.
Last spring, the novel coronavirus had Michelle Bourque worried. Not just because she feared catching it, although that was a big concern, but more because her 81-year-old mother was in Chateau de Notre Dame, a New Orleans-nursing home with one of…
Amid a rise in new coronavirus cases across Louisiana and in Baton Rouge, Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center announced Tuesday that it will begin to restrict visitors on its campus.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Council on Aging is shutting down its administrative offices and associated facilities for 12 days due to an increase of confirmed coronavirus among the agency's employees.
With new cases of the coronavirus on the rise locally, East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and hospital officials urged the public to remain vigilant in mask-wearing, handwashing and social distancing — especially as Thanksgiving…
The lesson in Kaci Ernest’s family and consumer science class on Friday was to bake chocolate chip cookies. But thanks to the coronavirus, she was the only person in her classroom at Zachary High.
Louisiana officials issued dire warnings Friday after seeing the largest increase in coronavirus cases on record, as the unprecedented nationwide surge in the virus threatens to hammer the state.
Park Elementary in Baton Rouge is sending its 270-plus kids home next week after learning of "multiple, positive COVID-19 cases impacting students and staff at various grade levels."
Gov. John Bel Edwards spoke Friday to address the largest increase in new coronavirus cases Louisiana has reported since August, as the state sees more evidence of a new surge in COVID-19.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ coronavirus restrictions have elicited plenty of backlash from conservative lawmakers and residents who are sick of the rules, including some who have loudly proclaimed the orders are unconstitutional.
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s fi…
East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome warned residents that health data show the parish trending in the wrong direction in the fight against the coronavirus, urging people not to give into "COVID fatigue."
A Baton Rouge judge on Thursday ruled a law used by House Republican lawmakers to order the governor to revoke his coronavirus restrictions is unconstitutional, dealing a blow to conservatives who have sought for months to loosen the rules.
Nearly a month after they reopened, Ascension Parish bars were again forced to close for on-site sales after new state coronavirus data showed the parish rising above state health benchmarks, state licensing officials said.
Louisiana’s Democratic governor and Republican attorney general are set to face off in a high-stakes court battle Thursday to decide whether the state’s coronavirus restrictions – including a statewide mask mandate and social distancing requiremen…
A federal judge in Baton Rouge has reaffirmed that Gov. John Bel Edwards has the authority to fashion "reasonable restrictions" on religious activity during the novel coronavirus pandemic and that his series of gradually evolving limits on public …
Zachary High School is sending all of its students home to learn virtually because of recent coronavirus cases and won’t be reopening for in-person instruction until after the Thanksgiving break, according to a message sent to parents Tuesday afternoon.
Two weeks after calling it off, LSU reversed course Friday and announced the state’s flagship university is indeed holding an in-person commencement ceremony in December.
After a Baton Rouge judge declined to temporarily block Gov. John Bel Edwards’s coronavirus restrictions, the governor on Thursday said he will extend Louisiana’s Phase 3 rules for another four weeks.
For weeks, state health leaders for weeks have warned of a potential “twindemic” of a bad flu season in tandem with the novel coronavirus outbreak in Louisiana, a combination that could prove especially deadly for the medically vulnerable.
Each week since August, a team of LSU researchers suit up in protective gear as they collect and inspect wastewater samples beneath campus living halls with the hopes of spotting microscopic coronavirus samples that could indicate a potential outbreak.
Juban Parc Junior High recently canceled football games after members of the team were placed in quarantine because of recent positive cases of coronavirus at the school.
The morning after Hurricane Zeta whisked through the state, Baton Rouge was greeted with fall football weather. An evening of ominous clouds and blustery drizzles was replaced with clear blue skies and autumnal temperatures.
Even as public schools have returned to in-person instruction, children who have elected to learn at home during the pandemic have had to come to school regularly if they want to collect their school meals.
A loosely organized group of business leaders has issued a letter calling the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board’s decision to conduct a new search for new superintendent — rather than choosing among the leading candidates of the last search — a…
Instead of simply reporting how many coronavirus cases have been found in Louisiana nursing homes, the state also began reporting Wednesday the number of cases that actually originated at each facility.
It's the second time this month there's been promising news about a vaccine.
Louisiana’s coronavirus cases continued to surge over the weekend, further solidifying the evidence that the state is starting a third major outbreak as infections are hitting record levels nationwide.
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,239 more coronavirus cases and 10 more deaths in its noon update Sunday.
The lesson in Kaci Ernest’s family and consumer science class on Friday was to bake chocolate chip cookies. But thanks to the coronavirus, she was the only person in her classroom at Zachary High.
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Louisiana officials issued dire warnings Friday after seeing the largest increase in coronavirus cases on record, as the unprecedented nationwide surge in the virus threatens to hammer the state.
Park Elementary in Baton Rouge is sending its 270-plus kids home next week after learning of "multiple, positive COVID-19 cases impacting students and staff at various grade levels."
Gov. John Bel Edwards spoke Friday to address the largest increase in new coronavirus cases Louisiana has reported since August, as the state sees more evidence of a new surge in COVID-19.
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state spiking to record levels, bus drivers and teachers in quarantine, students getting sick and the holidays looming, Schools Superintendent Scott Hanback in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, made a toug…
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,812 more coronavirus cases — and 680 new probable cases — along with 24 more deaths in its noon update Friday, a worrying surge in Louisiana case numbers after the state had seemed to avoid the sharp i…
Gov. John Bel Edwards warned of a troubling spike in coronavirus cases in Louisiana during a Friday morning press conference, preparing residents for a worrying rise in infections ahead of the state's daily release of data on the pandemic.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ coronavirus restrictions have elicited plenty of backlash from conservative lawmakers and residents who are sick of the rules, including some who have loudly proclaimed the orders are unconstitutional.