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New Roads sits on False River northwest of Baton Rouge, and its holiday calendar gives you a few good reasons to make the drive. The parish tourism office, Visit False River, lists these four dates. Thursday, Nov. 12: An Evening in Greece. CIRCA at Morel's, 210 Morrison Pkwy., is hosting...
Some restaurants chase trends every few years, and some simply keep doing the same thing for decades. One spot in Baton Rouge has been rolling out homemade hot tamales since 1962, back when a gallon of gas cost about 28 cents. The same family still runs it, and the parking...
BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish voters will choose between two candidates in the District 3 school board runoff in one month. Four candidates originally ran for the seat. On election day, incumbent Carla Powell got more than 4,700 votes, and Thomasina Joseph got about 2,800 votes, sending them into a runoff.
BATON ROUGE - Several taxpayer-funded agencies are coping with a harsh reality, going from fully funded to nothing. It's a reality organizations around East Baton Rouge Parish are grappling with as the Metro Council prepares its next budget because COVID-19-era American Rescue Plan money depleted. Meaning, the city-parish has to...
BATON ROUGE — The East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Thursday to launch an independent audit into an alleged misappropriation of funds involving its non-profit affiliate, Partners Southeast. The board retained certified public accounting and consulting firm Luther Speight & Company LLC to...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - East Baton Rouge Parish leaders are taking the next steps to explore what it would take to separate the parish and the city of Baton Rouge into two governments. The possibility of deconsolidating city-parish government was discussed during Tuesday night’s Metro Council meeting, where council...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Baton Rouge is moving closer to a formal examination of whether it can afford to govern itself independently of East Baton Rouge Parish, raising questions about who controls local tax dollars, how public services would be funded, and whether the city’s current government structure adequately represents its residents.
Rick Gallot, who oversees the eight schools in the University of Louisiana System, owes $350,000 in federal income taxes going back to 2019, according to a tax lien filed with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court’s office. Gallot, who has a total compensation package of $600,000 per...
Air Force veteran Warren Lejeune asked Brusly's veterans to point young people toward military service. Plus, the parish Veterans Day celebration at the West Baton Rouge Museum.
Dr. Bridgette Webster, director of Mental Health Services for the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, is honored to be one of the contributors to a new national publication designed to strengthen school social work practices and improve support services for students. “Implementation Guide: The National School Social Work Practice...
