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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...

PORT ALLEN- As students soak in the final weeks of summer sun without alarms, West Baton Rouge law enforcement officers are sharpening their response skills through active shooter training. WBRSO School Resource Officers and deputies from the area moved through the bright, empty school hallways, going through training

Port Allen is one step closer to a new wastewater treatment facility after the council approved funding for a land appraisal. Here's what else happened at the July 8 meeting.

BATON ROUGE - Workers are on their third week of combing through a section of the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill, searching for the body of a 15-year-old who was killed. During a Press Club lunch on Monday, District Attorney Hillar Moore said that the crew is using small...

BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore gave an update on the investigation into the deadly shooting at the Mall of Louisiana, saying ballistics testing is still ongoing. Moore said the ballistics review is nearly complete but is going through multiple rounds of review. "It's not...