Packed house, same debate
The information and the conflict remain the same with City-Brooks Park, with a conservancy question looming large.
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EBR Animal Control has some thoughts
Some public officials who oversee childhood vaccinations avoid talking about them. East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control has taken a different approach with pets, and it's refreshing.
Party like a Swede
Two peoples not known for being the life of the party. One already has a holiday.
Wisdom of the Mexican restaurant line
Caldo de Res is as good as someone's mamma's gumbo. Try the version from Ideal Market first.
Working 9 to 5? Dolly's got Community Coffee
America's favorite country singer and philanthropist will serve Baton Rouge-based Community at her new highway stores.
BREC sets the ground rules
Thursday's City-Brooks community meeting is structured feedback—not a public debate.
Corner drugstores are being repurposed
Two pharmacies in Baton Rouge will feed the demand of residents and students around them
Hear the wisdom of the 'Sake Ninja'
BREADA's new teaching kitchen at Main Street Market launches a summer culinary series—and the first two acts are sake and wine.
Here comes the sun
Your sunscreen is lying to you.
Same city, different future
The debate over City-Brooks is really the same fight Baton Rouge has been having with itself for two decades.
A troubling sign
The visual pollution ordinances exist. The court exists. The enforcement doesn't.
Screens out, mummies in
Visit Baton Rouge has a passport that turns "I'm bored" into a summer project— mummies, castles, science and all.
Lawsuit questions St. George's existence
Muddy politics of urban water
The restoration project has transformed the shorelines. A future phase is being designed. Get your questions answered this evening.
Old tech, real problem
Your old electronics have nowhere to go. Here's the closest thing Baton Rouge has to a solution.
When hell rains and the sun shines
'The devil is beating his wife.' It's a Southern idiom with a foggy backstory.
Rewriting the obesity playbook
Pennington Biomedical didn't just study the new childhood obesity framework. Three of its faculty helped write it.
📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | June 8–14
Why it matters: Two major public meetings in three days put the future of University Lakes and City-Brooks squarely before the community—and Baton Rouge's newest theatre company opens its doors Friday night.
🗓️ Thursday, June 11
🎨 LSU Museum of Art: Free Summer Reception—6–8 p.m.
Downtown living
Plan Baton Rouge III is betting that downtown can be a place where life happens, not just shared experiences.
BREC's other park
Parks and Rec, no joke
Good fences, worse neighbors
Privacy is fine. Isolation isn't. There's a difference.
The geography of pho
Baton Rouge’s best immigrant food often starts in overlooked shopping centers, then quietly remakes the city’s appetite.
Capital Region jobs hit record high
A construction boom is doing the heavy lifting. That's not the same as a diversified economy.
The gate escape
BTR is already easy. It just needs a little more lift.
Cork's masters the po-boy!
The Government Street restaurant, arguably, has the best shrimp po-boy anywhere. Them's fighting words.
The hum that gets things done
Walk into City Roots, French Truck or CC's and you'll find people doing serious work—heads down, laptops open. They're there because of the noise level, a hidden reason coffeehouses draw people to them.
Science backs this up. Research led by Ravi Mehta at
A model conservancy
Done right, a conservancy transforms City-Brooks and the University Lakes into a public asset that belongs to everyone.
Field of dreams, the sequel
EBR corruption probe, explained
Research pays off
Integer Technologies will pay an average salary of $130,000 as it expands its LSU research operation. The new positions, tied to AI and autonomous defense systems, pay about twice the average East Baton Rouge Parish wage.
Why it matters: The announcement offers another sign that LSU’s growing research
In praise of the bento box
Hurricane cone is getting more useful
An update to storm information will mean much less guesswork for storm risk.
What would Olmsted do?
As Baton Rouge considers the future of City-Brooks Park, there are grander lessons to learn from the father of American landscape architecture.
Teachers get paid. Schools pay.
Gov. Jeff Landry wants to preserve teacher stipends by redirecting $168 million from Louisiana’s public school funding formula.
Wings and things
Where the butterflies choose you
A road by any other name
The curious reason that street names change from one intersection to the next
Grigsbys take aim at library tax
River envy
Sail 250 packed the New Orleans riverfront. Baton Rouge was watching—and hopefully taking notes.
Here's your problem
Most people blame litterbugs. The real culprits are harder to fix.
Bikers get a new path
