Baton Rouge LA

BATON ROUGE — The Alliance Safety Council held its first "Can-struction" showcase, bringing together three contracting companies in a friendly competition to benefit the community. Teams from Baker Construction, the Pala Group and Ascension Roofing built structures made entirely out of canned goods. All the groups comp

Heavy NSU presence in presentations at state high school coaches clinic. There was a strong Northwestern State Demons presence at this week’s Louisiana High School Coaches Association convention and clinic in Baton Rouge, gathering hundreds of coaches from around the state. The annual event provides a robust schedule o

BATON ROUGE - BREC Commissioners were served with a summons in a civil action lawsuit from an employee who had their termination overturned. Tonya Gordon Smith previously said she was fired because she refused what she called improper payment orders. Smith, who worked at BREC, said she refused to process payments that

BATON ROUGE - The Northdale Superintendent's Academy on Cletus Drive in Baton Rouge will now move to a new location for the 2026-2027 school year. The move to the Belfair campus on Fairfields Avenue was finalized Thursday evening by the EBR School Board. "I think that right now, the district...

BATON ROUGE - Several members of the community came together Thursday night to share ideas on how to make their neighborhood safer. "Not a hood, not inner city, not ghost town, we are a neighborhood. So we are striving to put neighbor back on hood," Community Advocate Pearl Porter said.

BATON ROUGE — Residents in the Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood say the city has abandoned their community, leaving behind overgrown lots, buckled pavement and blighted properties. The neighborhood sits south of Interstate 10 but north of LSU. From the interstate, many would struggle to notice there's a neighborhood.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Community leaders and residents gathered at Istrouma High School this week with one goal in mind: finding ways to strengthen Baton Rouge’s 70805 neighborhood and create a better future for the people who call it home. For Pearl Porter, affectionately known throughout the community...

An elderly woman from Houma died from injuries sustained in a crash on Tuesday, July 21, in West Baton Rouge Parish.

BAKER — The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education may have violated state law by not properly notifying the public that it was taking over two low-performing schools in Baker, an appellate court found. According to the appellate court ruling issued on Tuesday, four members of a five-judge...

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