The Metro Council approved two measures dealing with the transition: one for a 2% sales tax and the other to keep services ...

A woman who has worked with several government agencies has been indicted on criminal charges in Baton Rouge and may soon be ...

This year’s budget is expected to involve cuts to several federal health programs and other key programs.

LSU Provost Roy Haggerty, the highest ranking academic administrator on campus, will be leaving the university.

Without telling her daughter, Nija got tested to see if she could donate one of her kidneys. Doctors told her the chance of ...

Senate Health and Welfare voted 6-3 to advance the bill to the house floor, with one caveat: locals would have the option to vote to keep community fluoridation in their area.

Crime, violence, and addiction are robbing children of their parents --- leaving some grandparents to step in and take on the responsibility of raising their own grandchildren.

The prestigious men of the Southern University School of Nursing visited the Governor’s Mansion to celebrate a historic ...

A combination of saturated ground, warm temperatures, and humid conditions will continue to yield ideal conditions for morning fog.

A man is accused of falsely reporting fires to try to gain access to the inside of his ex-girlfriend’s gated apartment ...

A Baton Rouge man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left multiple people hurt in Acadia Parish.

Gayle Benson, who owns both the Pelicans and the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, described a relationship with Dumars that grew ...