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A Raceland Middle School teacher was named the 2026 Outstanding Middle School Math Teacher of the Year by the Louisiana Association of Teachers of Mathematics (LATM). Tyler Dufrene, who currently serves as a sixth grade math teacher at Raceland Middle School, will be honored at an awards ceremony on Friday, Nov. 13 dur

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Nearly a month after a deadly late-night hit-and-run on Greenwell Springs Road, Baton Rouge police have no leads, leaving the family of John Le Nguyen searching for answers. Julie Nguyen said her brother, John, would do anything to protect their family. “He was a very...

A Baton Rouge man was arrested following a failed Standardized Field Sobriety Test, officials said.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Losing a child is a pain no parent ever expects to experience. For Kathryn Juneau, the loss of her 14-month-old son, Mitchell, in a 2024 drowning accident became the reason behind a new mission to help other families facing the same grief. “It’s indescribable. It’s...

Councilman Anthony Kenney Jr. led the “Revitalizing the Block” workshop, which connected residents with information about adjudicated properties, redevelopment resources, permits, grants and other opportunities to bring vacant properties back into use.

ADDIS — Early Tuesday morning, West Baton Rouge Parish fire crews worked to contain a fire that started when a large tank of flammable liquid caught fire in the Sugar Mill subdivision in Addis. According to fire officials, workers were operating a large Acetylene tank when the valve ruptured,...

When the Amazon Fulfillment Center at Cortana Mall in Baton Rouge opened to much excitement, I did not foresee that I would be living next to an airport. My property appears to be under an Amazon Prime Air “flyway,” with drones buzzing overhead all day, some as early as 7:30 a.m.

State investigators have subpoenaed emails involving a Metro Council member and two former employees who oversaw a city-parish health initiative, seeking communications with a contractor already charged with lying to get paid for a government-sponsored gun-safety event. The subpoena is part of a wide-ranging probe into

Three suspects were each sentenced to decades behind bars for their roles in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 14-year-old boy who was walking with a group of teens to Domino’s. Dylan Thomas Fox, Yusef Wesley Jr. and Asia Jones each had previously pleaded guilty to reduced charges in...

Several Baton Rouge area restaurants were cited by the Louisiana Department of Health for critical violations over the last two weeks, according to records. Two main issues emerging for eateries with critical violations this summer are the presence of insects or rodents and having no managers or employees with food saf