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

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

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

East Baton Rouge Parish has completed a project to upgrade and connect all of its traffic lights to a central command center, which city leaders say will allow them to be changed in real-time to ...

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 ...

The wife of former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Melvin “Kip” Holden confirmed he passed away early Wednesday morning at Carpenter House after a lengthy illness. He was 72. Holden, an ...

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 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 ...

Its incorporation means the parish will lose sales tax revenue ... arguing the new city would cripple East Baton Rouge financially, while also contending St. George would not be able operate ...

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.