East Baton Rouge’s BREC is moving on from years of problems with a new...
BATON ROUGE — BREC has a new superintendent, and questions are already being raised about his $275,000 salary. Brooks Williams took over the role after his predecessor, Corey Wilson, chose not to renew his contract. Wilson stepped down in March of last year after a series of WBRZ Investigative Unit reports revealed the
1 dead after crashing into dump truck along La. 67 in Zachary, LSP says
ZACHARY — One person died in a two-vehicle crash on La. 67 near Welch Lane in Zachary, according to Louisiana State Police. The crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. on Aug. 3. Dakota Havard, 33, of Slaughter, was driving a truck north on La. 67 when the vehicle crossed...
LSP: Multi-vehicle crash in Zachary leaves one person dead
The Louisiana State Police is investigating a multi-vehicle crash in Zachary that killed one person.
Raising Cane’s Confirms 7 New Restaurant Openings as Popular Chicken Chain Continues Massive Expansion
Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Raising Cane’s is continuing its rapid expansion across the United States by opening seven new restaurant locations this August, while also reopening several remodeled stores as the popular chicken finger chain celebrates its 30th anniversary. The latest expansion introduces the brand to two ne
‘I can train you’: New easier-to-use software promises better school bus routing in Baton...
With a new school year about to start, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is gambling on new bus routing software that promises to find children and get them to school more accurately and efficiently. It’s a promise school officials heard before, and it doesn’t always come true....
Since 1992, this family-operated chain has transformed the scope of po-boys in Baton Rouge
At 90 years old, Lionel Selser doesn’t find himself behind the wheel often. That is, unless he’s driving down the street to Po-Boy Express. The Baton Rouge-based po-boy chain was founded in 1992 by the Ismail brothers, who broke ground on what may have been the first drive-thru po-boy restaurant in the city.
List: Start dates for schools in the Baton Rouge area
Students are soon returning to the classroom for the new school year.
Denham Springs family tent camping while searching for housing near daughter’s brain cancer trial
The Tantons are doing everything in their power to make sure their 11-year-old daughter, Katie, has every opportunity possible to fight Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a rare and aggressive terminal brain cancer that primarily affects children. Earlier this year, Katie was accepted into into a new TarGeT-A Cli
Search for body of Ja’Derrius Minnieweather in landfill enters fourth week
Authorities continue searching for the body of 15-year-old Ja’Derrius Minnieweather in an East Baton Rouge Parish landfill as efforts enter a fourth week.
3 men arrested in Baton Rouge after Livingston Parish investigation tied to armed robbery,...
An armed robbery investigation in Livingston Parish led to the arrest of three men.
