Local officers wrapped up a campaign for increased seat belt use on Sunday.
From May 23 to June 5, Baton Rouge police were on high alert for seat belt safety offenders, setting up checkpoints and ticketing...
With water levels of the Mississippi River slowly decreasing, officials began removing the orange Tiger Dams from Baton Rouge levees Monday.
River levels were recorded at 41.4 feet Monday morning, keeping...
Mayor-President Kip Holden announced to a stadium full of country music fans that Bayou Country Superfest will definitely happen again next year.
He did not, however, disclose any information about the...
VILLE PLATTE, La. (AP) — Authorities say two investigators with the Louisiana insurance fraud section have been shot and killed while trying to collect information from an agent and that a man has...
The LSU Board of Supervisors convened Friday afternoon, agreeing to aid in the transition of University of New Orleans to the University of Louisiana System.
The Board moved to approve a resolution that...
At first glance, AVES: A Survey of the Literature of Neotropical Ornithology may seem like just another exhibit at Hill Memorial Library. The exhibit, however, isn't that simple.
The exhibit glorifies...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The House budget committee is considering a Jindal administration proposal to sell three Louisiana prisons, but has already scrapped the governor's idea of using the money...
(AP) — State biologists and scientists have deployed more than 100 million oyster larvae and 500,000 oyster spat to help rehabilitate oyster grounds affected by hurricanes in the last six years.
The...
(AP) — The number of major crimes committed in Baton Rouge last year dropped 9 percent from 2009, according to statistics released by the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Crimes against people —...
