The Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge Parish (BREC) announced on Monday, Feb. 3, that visitors traveling to the Baton Rouge Zoo or Greenwood Community Park will need to ...

LSU announced Dr. Lucio Miele as the director of the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center. A native of Naples, Italy, Miele currently serves as LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine senior associate ...

Jennifer B Higgins has been appointed as the acting USCIS director. She has previously served as the USCIS deputy director and in other leadership positions. USCIS manages immigration benefits in ...

Click here for up-to-date information on road closures in the Baton Rouge area. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First News) — The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — After a rare snowfall blanketed Baton Rouge and surrounding areas, several businesses are beginning to reopen as conditions slowly improve. Local restaurants ...

The historic snowfall gave way Wednesday to a record cold snap as Baton Rouge endured a second day of extreme weather. Without snowplows and equipment to clear snow, the region relied on Mother ...

Residents' tally of the historic snowstorm in Baton Rouge is in. The bottom line: certain parts of the city it reported more snow than any storm in history, except the vicious 1895 snowfall of ...

Curbside garbage, recycling and out-of-cart services will resume in East Baton Rouge Parish on Thursday, but with a late start in an effort to limit travel in the early morning hours, the city ...

Several parishes and cities in the Baton Rouge surrounding areas are extending their curfews to Thursday starting tonight due to hazardous conditions on the road created by the snowstorm.

After up to 10 inches of snow fell in areas across the Baton Rouge metro Tuesday, closures are growing longer as Louisiana grapples with ice on roadways and freezing temperatures. Consequently ...