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The hats won't be on exhibit in time for Easter, but that wouldn't have mattered to Louise Fertitta. She didn't need a holiday to dictate when she would or could wear a hat. "She would always have a hat on when I saw her," said Lauren Davis, curator of the West Baton Rouge Museum. "And everyone who knew her, knew...

In the heart of Cajun country, Allen Mclain farms about 3,000 acres of rice together with his wife, father, and two younger brothers. Much of their crop, all south of LA-14, is under threat. Saltwater from the Gulf is slowly, and some days quickly, making its way up through marshes, bayous, and over levees.

Construction is ongoing on the former CVS at the corner of Government Street and South Acadian Thruway to turn it into a hub with multiple restaurant tenants. The redevelopment will turn the drugstore into a multi-unit building with a Marcos Pizza, PJ’s Coffee, Wingstop and Donuts and Burgers. Tenant agreements are...

BATON ROUGE — For Jerome Byrd, a routine stop at the gas pump comes with a bigger reminder: the cost of driving in Baton Rouge goes far beyond the price of fuel. “You need a four wheeler to ride up and down Baton Rouge roads, that's just how bad they is,” Byrd said.

Inside Government Street’s newest coffee and grocery store, every item seems to have a story behind it. Las Brujas Coffee and Grocery soft-opened on March 22 at 3101 Government St., Baton Rouge, in the same building strip as Elsie’s Plate & Pie. Owner David Villa sells coffee and an expanding inventory of organic...

ST. GABRIEL, La. (WAFB) - Nearly a year after Katina Perck Leggion was killed in a crash on a highway in St. Gabriel, her family says they are disappointed a grand jury declined to indict the truck driver on a vehicular homicide charge. Investigators said Leggion was a passenger on...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge business says an ongoing issue outside its doors has forced them to spend thousands of dollars to fix a problem they never expected, while also shining a light on the city’s broader challenges with homelessness. Owners of Roul’s Deli on Plank...

BATON ROUGE — First responders were called to a shooting that left one person injured at an apartment complex next to an elementary school on Monday afternoon. The shooting happened at Elmgrove Garden Apartments along Elm Grove Garden Drive, sources told WBRZ. The apartment complex is next to JK...

Hope Jackson is accused of pressuring her boyfriend to kill the father of her two children, who was gunned down in front of his Louisiana home last week. The post 'I want him OV': Mom feared losing custody fight, pressured boyfriend to ambush kids' father in parking lot killing, police say first appeared on Law &...

EBRSO said they found various drugs in Guidry's vehicle which she had crashed into a ditch on Wednesday, March 25.