The Jambalaya Festival Association is celebrating a historic achievement as its reigning queen, Gracie Guillot, on Saturday ...

The Louisiana Legislature’s Commission on the Equitable Distribution of Certain Ad Valorem Taxes met on Tuesday to discuss potential changes in how tax revenue from private rail car lines is allocated ...

The Mid-Barataria project was long seen as the linchpin of the state's coastal master plan, but Gov. Jeff Landry has left it ...

A Feb. 15 special primary election was called to fill the two vacancies in the Legislature after Cleo Fields, a Baton Rouge ...

Mayor Sid Edwards’ plan to shift library funds to police pay and infrastructure hit a snag after a library tax renewal ...

Baton Rouge man dead after two-vehicle crash in Acadia Parish Best Gas Mileage SUVs for 2025 Trump official orders consumer protection agency to stop work ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Even though the Downtown Development District is not getting the same amount of funding from the ...

I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for the Baton Rouge metro area. The watch, which is in place until 8 p.m., stretches from Lake Charles to Gulfport, MS. The National Weather ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill signed an extradition form Wednesday for a New York physician, she announced in a news release. Her action comes less than two weeks after a Louisiana grand jury ...

An East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic after Super Bowl LIX, and the driver fled the scene, according to the New Orleans Police Department.