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Lane Kiffin jokes up a solution for LSU day game vs. Alabama: Friday curfew in Baton Rouge
The Tigers football coach wasn’t happy this Saturday’s kickoff time in Tiger Stadium for a College Football Playoff caliber contest was set at 2:30 p.m. but jokingly proposed a Baton Rouge curfew to deal...
Baton Rouge marketing agency celebrates 50 years, launches LSU Manship scholarship
Baton Rouge based DAA Media + Marketing is celebrating 50 years in business helping advertise companies like Window World and Raising Cane’s and scaling alongside them.
Meet the Baton Rouge head of one of Louisiana’s largest law firms
Jones Walker, national law firm with an office in Baton Rouge, recently named a new Baton Rouge office head. Ted Jones says he will grow certain practice areas of the firm as the workforce changes.
Layla Kiffin is building a life of her own in Baton Rouge, beyond LSU football. Here’s how.
Over a long lunch interview, Layla Kiffin talks about co-parenting with her former husband, LSU coach Lane Kiffin and adjusting to Louisiana.
Visit Baton Rouge gets permit for new $5 million office, Landmark Bank to build branch
Here is a list of commercial and residential building permits issued by East Baton Rouge Parish Government from Oct. 19-30.
Baton Rouge judge makes RJ Luis eligible to play for LSU after latest legal action by attorneys
RJ Luis’ lawyers have petitioned a Baton Rouge court to prevent the SEC from penalizing LSU if he joins the basketball roster. The petition follows a preliminary injunction allowing Luis to play despite NC...
Support staff in Baton Rouge school poised to receive $1,000 checks before Christmas
The move is meant to ensure compliance with an executive order from Gov. Jeff Landry mandating stipends this year for school employees across the state.
Live: High school football scores in the Baton Rouge area for Week 10 of the 2026 season
High school football scores for Baton Rouge and South Louisiana for Week 10 of the high school football season. Walker-Denham Springs, Ascension Christian-St. John and Central-Woodlawn are among the big games.
After bruising primary, this Republican, Democrat will face off in Louisiana’s 6th District
Banks, a Democrat from Baton Rouge, will face Miguez, a Republican from Acadiana, in a run-off for one of Louisiana’s six congressional seats.
Read, vote, write: La. Book Festival opens doors for readers, authors
The annual Louisiana Book Festival was held Oct. 31 in Baton Rouge with volumes of activities to offer for both readers and writers alike. Each year, the festival helps shape the next generation of authors w...
DOJ election monitors visited midterm polling sites across Louisiana. Here’s what happened.
Election monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice visited polling locations in New Orleans, Lafayette and Baton Rouge on Tuesday as voters flocked to the polls.
Trump DOJ sends election monitors, warning letters to Louisiana before big midterm elections
Election monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice will be in Orleans, East Baton Rouge and Lafayette parishes on Election Day.
Election Day rain ahead of overnight cold front
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A cold front brings rain and storms overnight, followed by a gradual cool down.
Pediatric EMT credited with saving woman left for dead after hit and run
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A pediatric EMT on his way to work is being credited with saving a woman’s life after she was left on the side of a Baton Rouge road in a hit-and-run. Police are asking for the pu...
Polls open across Louisiana as voters decide Senate seat, major local races
Polls are open across Louisiana for the Nov. 3, 2026, election. Find voting locations, hours, key Baton Rouge races and live election results.
4 US cities are the lucky winners of Trump's $300M crime crackdown contest
Jacksonville, Baton Rouge, Jackson and St. Louis win nearly $300 million in Justice Department funding aimed at violent crime reduction and stronger law enforcement.
Family, classmates mourn Metairie couple’s ‘fairy-tale’ love after pair killed in crash near LSU
Hundreds of family members, friends, classmates and others from the community gathered to mourn Leah Fonte and Shane Hirstius, who, authorities say, were killed by a drunk driver while walking on Nicholson D...
See what candidates for Louisiana’s 5th congressional say about abortion, Medicaid
Five of the district’s nine candidates discussed those issues at a forum hosted by the Press Club of Baton Rouge.
This Louisiana election is unusual, some observers say. Here’s why.
WASHINGTON – Baton Rouge pollster John Couvillon turned on his TV after Labor Day expecting — and like most political junkies, even looking forward to — a deluge of campaign
Former Rams great Marshall Faulk shares Parkinson's diagnosis, hopes to help others
Marshall Faulk is an extraordinarily active 53-year-old. The first-ballot NFL Hall of Fame running back is the head football coach at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. He runs a
What's the latest on major road and bridge projects, and why are they are taking so long?
For more than a decade, planners have been talking about a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, though there’s still no timeline for a groundbreaking, much less
La. EMS, FD partner to bring blood products to the field
East Baton Rouge EMS and St. George Fire Department’s new partnership will put 20 trained "Blood Medics" in the field starting Oct. 26