Baton Rouge LA

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...

Jurors got glimpses into the emotional rollercoaster that played out after 2-year-old Nevaeh Liyla Allen was reported missing four years ago. On the second day of testimony in Lanaya Brittany Cardwell’s juvenile cruelty trial, Thursday, prosecutors played video footage from FBI agents and Baton Rouge Police...

Five East Baton Rouge public high schools are in line to receive hundreds of quick-locking door barricades meant to protect classrooms and school buildings in the event of an active shooter terrorizing those campuses. The devices are triggered by turning a rod located just above the door handle, which activates...

Forced to resign last year as chancellor of LSU’s medical school in Shreveport, Dr. David Guzick will take the same job at its New Orleans campus, replacing Dr. Steve Nelson who was fired Thursday. Nelson led the medical school since 2021, first on an interim basis after Dr. Larry Hollier resigned as chancellor amid...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Two more people are facing charges for their alleged connection to a shooting and beating that left one person dead. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, detectives arrested Eric Byrd, 39, and James Williams, 44, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, for second-degree murder. Police said...

DENHAM SPRINGS - A woman shot in the neck while wrestling over a gun with a man died from her injuries, the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office said. Jasmine Newhouse, 18, was shot by Dexter Boutte, 35, on Jan. 31 while the couple was arguing at a Magnolia Beach Road apartment complex, deputies said. They were...

American Safety, which got its start providing safety training to refinery workers, took another step toward expanding its tourism transportation business by acquiring Dixieland Tours this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But the move gives Belle Chasse-based American Safety 21 more charter buses, bringing...

A new cocktail bar, Truce & Chaos, will move into the former location of beloved bar Uncle Earl’s. The longtime Baton Rouge bar at 3753 Perkins Road closed its doors on Jan. 15 after experiencing changes in the local bar landscape after the pandemic. An Instagram account for Truce & Chaos describes the upcoming...

BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Police Department arrested a man who allegedly stole a vehicle and then used the victim's debit card for multiple purchases. Police said Marquese Northern, 34, stole the vehicle before making a purchase around $175 at a business on Airline Highway; the victim said Northern may have made...