Baton Rouge LA

A new food festival is coming this fall as the inaugural St. George Food Truck Fest rolls into the BREC State Fairgrounds on Saturday, November 21, 2026, bringing together more than 25 food trucks, 100 market vendors, live music, family entertainment, and community support for a great cause. The festival...

BATON ROUGE — The future of City-Brooks Park is up for debate, with multiple proposals on the table ranging from keeping the golf course intact to adding bike lanes and expanding walking trails. BREC hired design consultant Sasaki Associates to develop proposals for how the park could look in...

A new private training studio in East Baton Rouge Parish is giving women a place to exercise without some of the pressure and intimidation they may feel inside a larger, co-ed gym.

The hottest stretch of the summer continues across the Capital Region with heat index values climbing as high as 115 degrees through Wednesday. While only a stray afternoon storm is possible over the next couple of days, rain chances increase late this week and into the weekend, bringing some relief from the extreme he

Residents say converting productive sugarcane fields into a solar farm is inefficient and harmful to local agriculture.

Video surveillance footage from surrounding buildings was used to identify a suspect involved in a fatal Zion City shooting last month, Baton Rouge Police said. Traylon Duncan, 18, was arrested Saturday for principal to second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Prison and

BATON ROUGE — Current East Baton Rouge Parish School Board Superintendent LaMont Cole is being investigated by the Louisiana Attorney General's Office as part of a wider corruption probe into the city-parish government, The Advocate reported Tuesday morning. The Advocate cited multiple sources noting that Cole is being

The warrant for a man arrested Saturday in connection with an alleged murder in a Florida Boulevard apartment complex earlier this month reveals the driver of the getaway car went to an auto shop to get “obvious window damage from gunfire” fixed minutes after the shooting. Jordan Edwards,...

BRUSLY — Parts of Front Brusly will be without power Tuesday night, the town said. According to officials, the outage is planned for 8 p.m. and is expected to last two hours. The outage is being done to allow Entergy to perform maintenance in the area. Around 79 customers...

Construction has begun for an $8 million improvement project, giving a busy stretch of Scenic Highway a facelift after years of planning. In development since 2020, the MovEBR project, which broke ground in May this year, looks to resurface roads and improve pedestrian safety along the corridor. The project focuses...