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BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge bus service is working through leadership changes. Last month, Sunnie Hines, the Chief Financial Officer of the Capital Area Transit System, resigned from her position with the agency, citing workplace hostility. During Hines' tenure, she was responsible for addressing payroll...

For many people the holidays are a time to unwind with friends and family, but overdoing it can come with potential health risk that's referred to as "holiday heart syndrome."

Jared Lamb, the principal of Basis Charter School in Baton Rouge, has traded his office for a cart, making him more available to his 960 students and staff.

A home has been ruled a total loss following a house fire on Christmas Eve in Baton Rouge.

State troopers issued a summons Saturday night to Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis for driving while intoxicated, a charge he said Monday he plans to contest, WAFB-TV reported. A report from Louisiana State Police indicates Lewis was pulled over in West Baton Rouge Parish for driving without headlights. He...

A 15-year-old boy was taken to a hospital in serious condition following a shooting in Baton Rouge on Christmas Eve.

Cade Hernandez, 24, was arrested in Jefferson Parish on Dec. 10 for a drive-by shooting that occurred on Oct. 19 in the area of West Worthy Road, in which 28 shots were fired into a home from three different guns.

A cold front is expected to follow closely on the heels of a warmer than usual Christmas in south Louisiana, bringing the potential for another freeze to much of the region just before New Year's Eve. The front will likely move through the area Sunday night, dropping temperatures across the...

The winners of the 2025 Red Lobster Band of the Year talk about the competition and the current state of HBCU bandom. The post HBCU Band Directors Unfiltered: Culture, Criticism, and Growth appeared first on HBCU Gameday .

Deep in the sloughs behind Don Ristroph's family farm, cypress have towered over surrounding trees, high grass and crop rows for centuries, and, he says, in one or two cases, perhaps half of a millennium or more. On a Mississippi River bend known as Point Pleasant, the cypress swamp and...