After months of work and three well-attended community meetings, East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole is finally on the verge of releasing his recommendations for school closures ...

A man with an extensive criminal history that includes a homicide and kidnapping has been arrested in the April 1 shooting death of James Williams, Baton Rouge Police report. BRPD homicide ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A pedestrian was killed in a late night crash in East Baton Rouge Parish on Friday, Apr. 18, according to Louisiana State Police. Troopers say 72-year-old Patrick Dooley ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A drug bust in Baton Rouge led to three arrests and the seizure of over 2,800 lethal doses of fentanyl, along with other drugs. In March 2025, the East Baton Rouge ...

Concerns about salt contaminating Baton Rouge's underground drinking water supply has prompted regulators to order a sweeping — and some say difficult-to-accomplish — look at pumping and ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — A Baton Rouge woman was arrested in connection with a shooting in St. Martin Parish yesterday morning. Officials said they arrested 21-year-old Emily Jones ...

Pictured (from left to right) several members of Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s medical physics team attending a Baton Rouge conference including Jennifer Voss, Krystal Kirby, Sotirios ...

A rare Flash Flood Emergency was issued for portions of East Baton Rouge Parish after the National Weather Service office in New Orleans said between 3.5 and 4.5 inches of rain had fallen by ...

In a federal court filing this morning, the AP‘s attorneys request “the Court’s immediate assistance in enforcing” the judge’s injunction order. The judge, Trevor McFadden, set a hearing ...

Baton Rouge Police fire officer who fatally shot Alton Sterling in 2016 Police said Friday they suspended another officer involved in the fatal shooting of Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who ...