Baker police and the city present Treat Street from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Baker City Park, next to City Hall, 3325 Groom Road. If it rains, the event will be in the Municipal Center. For information, ...

The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s mobile clinic will visit the East Feliciana Health Unit, 12080 Marston St., Clinton, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 28 to offer free screenings for breast, skin and ...

Southern University lifted its campus-wide lockdown after one person was injured during a shooting Monday evening.

Part of St. Louis Street in downtown Baton Rouge is closed until mid-November, as a 50-year-old underground water pipe is ...

Texas Southern won its SWAC game and FAMU football coach Quinn Gray addressed the recent tragedy after his team’s last game.

Here's your chance to make your vote count and choose The Advocate Baton Rouge Area Athlete of the Week. The poll will wrap ...

Ronald White, 21, a non-student, was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of first-degree rape, carrying a ...

Workers with Boardwalk Louisiana Midstream halted an ethane gas leak from the company's Choctaw gas storage complex west of ...

Police say there were shots fired on Southern University’s campus in Building 100 on Monday evening. The alleged shooter ...

Years before his Elizabeth Holmes documentary went viral, Harvard film student Lance Oppenheim used footage from the New ...

A brother and sister, both in their 60s, died in a Springfield house fire in Livingston Parish on Saturday morning. The State ...