Baton Rouge LA

ZACHARY - Zachary's second Restaurant Week is underway, giving residents a chance to try a variety of local spots at a fixed price. The event features food ranging from quesadillas to seafood to peach cobbler. Over 15 restaurants are participating this year, including Agave Blue, Bara Eats, Blue Bubble, CC's...

Gonzales Zoning Commission recommended approval of two Airbnb (Special Use Permit) applications last week, one on (see below). The recommendations go to the City Council which will take up the question this evening. These are the third and fourth “short term rental” applications set for council consideration, the first

A lawsuit filed last week in 18th Judicial Court seeks damages for the widow and daughter of a deputy who was slain eight months ago inside the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office. Carlye Bezet-Riley filed the suit against the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office individually and on behalf of her minor...

Standing at the north end of the Quad, the LSU Library is impossible to miss. In fact, it was designed to be that way when built nearly 30 years after the completion of the original campus. Now big changes are coming — changes that will lead to the demolition of...

Here is a list of commercial and residential building permits issued by East Baton Rouge Parish Government for the week of June 1-5 7234 Airline Highway, 720-square-foot addition, $80,000; applicant, David Albrecht; contractor, NKE Developments. 142 Lee Drive, change in occupancy from tobacco shop to tire shop; applica

BAKER - A community activist said hundreds of dollars worth of her youth violence awareness signs may have been stolen from businesses in Baker. Cathy Toliver, the grandmother of three-year-old Devin Page Jr., who was killed by a stray bullet in 2022, launched a campaign to spread a "Save Our Kids" message across East

A group of eighth graders in Heath Juneau's science class were on their second attempt at an unusual experiment: injecting liquid carbon dioxide deep underground — or at least a classroom model of that process. "Coach Juneau, can we get our CO2?" Ava Bourg, 14, asked. Her group's first...

BATON ROUGE — As of Monday morning, WBRZ and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are sold out of raffle tickets for the 2026 St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway!. The annual fundraiser raises money for St. Jude's treatment of childhood cancers. This year, the 13,250 tickets sold raised $1.325 million for St. Jude.

PORT ALLEN — A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with two burglaries that happened along Tuscaloosa Avenue in the northern part of West Baton Rouge Parish in late May, according to the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Jeff Bergeron said deputies identified 28-year-old Price Johnson,...

In an April Instagram post, Emmy-nominated actress Megan Stalter showed off her new high-tech and stylish trailer on the set of the hit HBO Max TV show "Hacks," filmed on a studio lot in Los Angeles. The vehicle comes with Starlink Wi-Fi, an Apple TV, an open floor plan and...