Baton Rouge LA

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina unleashed its footprint of devastation from Louisiana to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Joe Thomas, then a member of the Louisiana National Guard, boarded a Blackhawk helicopter in Baton Rouge with Adjutant General Bennett Landreneau to survey the carnage in New Orleans. As the chopper...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Police presence, including a SWAT team, has been spotted in a house on North 44th Street. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots, and officers have been on the scene for several hours. Authorities seem to be trying to get someone out of the house. At this time,...

82-year-old grandmother Barbara Longbotham loves, lives and plans to die purple and gold for LSU.

“The Lord was working out for us obviously because she's still here today,” Paula Norris Welch tells PEOPLE about her daughter Kayla, now 20

The Canary Islands Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution hosted an America250! patriot marker reveal at Highland Cemetery on Aug. 23. The marker, awarded by the National Society of DAR, helped launch the local America 250! celebration and specifically honored Highland Cemetery and three Revolutionary...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - These pictures tell a story. A story many will never forget—and for some, one they won’t ever remember. “Sometimes we’d be expecting an ambulance, and we’d hear the chopper,” said Dr. Kenneth Brown, former chief medical officer at the Baton Rouge Woman’s Hospital.

A Baton Rouge high school is expanding its long-running partnership with Baton Rouge Community College by taking over several classrooms at BRCC's Acadian campus and exposing teenagers to the career and trade courses at its center. It is the latest step by GEO Next Generation High School, where students take...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — West Baton Rouge deputies stopped a vehicle at approximately 6:10 p.m. Friday in connection with a shooting that the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO) was investigating. Donald Vondo, 26, was taken into custody and turned over to IPSO. There was no chase involved in the...

BATON ROUGE — The Powerball lottery jackpot has reached $1 billion after no one correctly matched all six numbers on Wednesday night. The jackpot has been rolling over since the last winner on May 31 and now sits at the sixth-largest prize amount in Powerball history. Drawings happen every...

Dave Baker, who was at KATC TV-3 for years, is back on television as he has landed a new gig in south Louisiana.