Baton Rouge LA

PORT ALLEN — A man was arrested by the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office for allegedly stealing money from casino game machines in several locations throughout the parish. According to West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Jeff Bergeron, an investigation into the thefts began in early December following reports...

BATON ROUGE — A new bar is set to open in the former location of Uncle Earl's, which closed its doors this year. Uncle Earl's had been at 3753 Perkins Road since 2018 before closing on Jan. 15. Now, a new bar called Truce and Chaos will take its place, according to its new Instagram account.

BATON ROUGE — Southern University plans to open the JagFresh Farmers Market this spring, selling everything from goat soap to honey to eggs. The new initiative, created in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture, launched as a pilot program last year, with Southern University being one of the...

Louisiana State University Associate Professor Naohiro Kato is at it again. He and his students have produced 1,500 cool-looking, 3D-printed, biodegradable Carnival bead necklaces, some of which will be tossed from floats during the 2026 Freret and Tucks parades in New Orleans and the Artemis parade in Baton Rouge....

In recent days, the Mardi Gras parade in Clinton — our neighbor to the north of Baton Rouge — became yet another scene of gun violence. Families ran for safety. A 6-year-old child was among those shot. That image has stayed with me. It troubles me not only...

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department announced the arrest of four people on Saturday following a search warrant in connection with suspected drug trafficking. According to police, the warrant was executed at a residence on North 38th Street on Feb. 3 after receiving numerous complaints from citizens about...

BATON ROUGE — A couple is pleading for answers after they say their dog was shot and killed in their own yard along Iris Street on Sunday night. Adrian Smith and Jimmy Pickle say they found their Pitbull-Bully mix in their front yard, lying on its left side with a bullet through its head.

A FedEx driver has been arrested, accused of stealing $32,000 worth of merchandise intended for a Baton Rouge Walmart store, the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office said. Draterrius McCollough, 31, was arrested and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish prison on felony theft, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Amazon is quietly turning Louisiana into one of its Southern strongholds. What started as a modest logistics footprint has turned into a full-on buildout, with fulfillment hubs, sortation sites and last-mile centers reshaping job markets and industrial real estate across multiple parishes. From Carencro and Baton...

From tailgating at LSU to getting travel advice in Target, Elin and Kenofi Terfa have discovered that the heart of Baton Rouge is truly in the people who call the city home. Since moving to Baton Rouge from Sweden in August 2025, the couple has documented every step of their new life in Louisiana, creating a digital...