The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation's biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge ...

The Baton Rouge Police Department has had to cut a string of programs, including its gun violence prevention patrols, after ...

Baton Rouge Police Chief Thomas Morse thanked the community for its support of Sgt. Caleb Eisworth, a motorcycle officer who was injured Monday when a driver intentionally rammed him.

A brass relief sculpture of state troopers at the entrance of Louisiana State Police headquarters in Baton Rouge. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator) State policy calls for government agencies to ...

An ambulance was stolen from Baton Rouge General Mid City Hospital early Wednesday morning, but was later recovered.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - One person was killed during an officer-involved shooting in Baton Rouge early Saturday morning, ...

When Whitney Hoffman Sayal took the helm of the Downtown Development District in June 2022, she had big shoes to fill.

As he approaches his 70th birthday, Grymes doesn't plan to spend many years in his second stint as state climatologist. He'd like to one day retire and spend a little bit of time riding his Kawasaki ...

Fishing licenses are required in Louisiana for freshwater fishing and can be purchased online or at LDWF Headquarters for a ...

Swaggart died at the age of 90 in Baton Rouge, LA—two weeks after his son, Donnie, revealed he was in the hospital.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A man and a woman were arrested in connection with a Monday hit-and-run that injured a Baton Rouge police officer on a motorcycle.

The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office was called to the scene. A suspect and motive have not been identified at this time.