State and health officials responded to the pandemic with health initiatives and measures to prevent the spread. The state experienced school and business closures, stay-at-home orders, mask mandates, ...

Bills in the Louisiana Legislature would shift some authority over tearing down blighted property away from Baton Rouge's ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - There is a room full of the history of the city of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. The second floor of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on Goodwood Boulevard is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to end automatic extensions of ...

Members of the Louisiana Legislative ... eliminate a program at the state Department of Agriculture that assists Black farmers. Rep. Vanessa LaFleur, D-Baton Rouge, said it could kill courses ...

The Nottoway Plantation House, a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation, was "the South's largest remaining ...