Baton Rouge LA

Here is a list of commercial and residential building permits issued by East Baton Rouge Parish Government from June 26-July 2. 8540 FLORIDA BLVD.: clothing store; applicant, Kevin Smith. 3130 BALIS DRIVE: mixed-use commercial space with a private fitness training studio and office space for a real estate brokerage; ap

A one-stop-shop that helps Baton Rouge families in distress is at a crossroads after 14 years in operation as its founding director Roxson Welch retires and the remaining leadership mulls its future. The Family and Youth Service Center, which opened in 2012, was meant to serve as a home base...

About 1,000 plants — all flowering Louisiana natives — were planted in under three hours on a recent Saturday morning along a well-traveled Baton Rouge intersection. A crew of about 30 volunteers — working in teams of two under an overcast sky on June 20 — kept up a steady pace, with one person shoveling the spot for t

Just outside St. Alban’s Chapel, located on LSU’s campus at the corner of Highland Road Dalrymple Drive, is a new garden filled with Louisiana native plants that are already attracting butterflies and bumblebees just weeks after being planted. This garden is also making campus history. Certified this June...

On the side of a road in Southeast Louisiana , sits a tiny white chapel that's no larger than a small shed. A key hidden in a small mailbox unlocks the portal doors to the inside, where a kneeler is placed in front of a modest altar adorned with figures of Christ and the Blessed Virgin. On one of the walls, a framed pi

GONZALES — A 19-year-old was arrested on attempted murder charges after a seemingly targeted shooting at a Gonzales gas station. Ascension Parish deputies responded to the shooting at Double A Discount along Airline Highway around 10 p.m. on Sunday. "This does not appear to be a random act of...

BATON ROUGE — A Louisiana law now adds a special designation to existing missing person alerts when that individual has a qualifying cognitive disability, and one local mother says it could save lives. Miranda Georgetown Riley, a mom of three kids diagnosed with autism, knows firsthand how quickly things...

VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY) — Two people have been charged in connection with a murder near Ville Platte in 2024, authorities said. Kamrein D. McClay, 21, of Houston, Texas, and Daijah Shar Dae McClay, 29, of Plaquemine, are each charged with one count of principal to second degree murder in connection with the death of J

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department is building a training simulator to help officers prepare for high-stress situations, according to a report by The Advocate. The building, located in Zachary, will feature walls that can be structured to create hundreds of different configurations, allowing for various tr

East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee are all under flash flood warnings as thunderstorms and heavy rain hit the area. Parts of these parishes could also experience wind gusts of over 40 mph and pea-sized hail. One to three inches of rain have already fallen, according to the National Weather Service. Th