Posted 9:31 AM 9/24/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — Southern University will be conducting a scheduled partial campus power outage on Saturday as the school works to "stabilize and improve the electrical distribution system."

The outage will be localized to academic buildings, the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union, F.G. (More)...

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Posted 9:48 PM 9/23/2026 by Halle Jefferson

BATON ROUGE - A decision on whether to explore whether a consolidated government is still beneficial for the city of Baton Rouge is on hold for now.

The Metro Council was set to vote on creating a Home Rule Charter Commission to determine if the city of Baton Rouge benefits from the (More)