EBR Chief Services Officer Dr. Yolanda Burnett-Lankford told Metro Council members the federal grant that funds the program ...

City-parish officials have agreed to pay state regulators $36,000 to settle old allegations that Baton Rouge's north sewage ...

The gauges' continued operation could depend on the passage of the "Thrive! EBR" plan this fall, city-parish officials said.

BREC could become part of the East Baton Rouge city-parish government under a proposal filed Thursday in the state Legislature, where a prior attempt to dismantle the parks agency failed several ...

Last year’s total was 81. Numbers are also up for East Baton Rouge Parish. As of Dec. 23, there are 119 homicides. In 2023, there were 106. BRPD is urging the public to come forward to help ...

East Baton Rouge Parish’s 40-year-old Head Start program could soon come to an end due to lack of federal funding.

On the ballot for parts of East Baton Rouge Parish, there’s a measure to create a new city: The City of St. George. It’s the first step to carving out a new school district, separate from East ...

The parents’ first petition drive to create a city, which ended in 2015, looked as if it would be successful. Supporters of St. George, arguing that the schools in East Baton Rouge Parish were ...

The City-Parish has a three-year backlog of complex drainage maintenance projects. Meanwhile, the ratio of East Baton Rouge Parish residents to drainage workers is 6,400 to 1. We simply don’t ...

Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with East Baton Rouge Parish, an area which may be larger than East Baton Rouge Parish itself.

The community’s initial plan was to set up a new school district, independent of East Baton Rouge Parish, but they were denied because they were not a city. The online petition has about half of ...