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Mayor moving police district to downtown

Judging LSU's football roster

Cult of the chicken tender

Raising Cane's has created Caniacs, who travel far to eat fried chicken and spread the love for it around the world.

Delay of game

How far your TV is behind a live broadcast depends on signal transmission

City-Brooks Park loses its bold

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | August 24–30

Why it matters: BRUFF takes over Manship Theatre for four days of independent film, panels and workshops—and Tuesday brings a rare double at LASM with Wendy Rodrigue leading morning tours and an evening celebration of the Blue Dog. 🗓️ Tuesday, August 25 🎨 Reflections: Wendy Rodrigue at LASM—10 a.m.

LSU's wearable defense

LSU researcher is turning data from football players into an early-warning system for heatstroke.

Sweet snake of mine

An LSU biologist went hunting in the dark. He came back with a species that didn't have a name, so a colleague named it after one of her favorite rock stars.

Beautiful spoils

Rolling tide of red ink

Drone and groan

Amazon’s drones are generating complaints almost as loud as their buzzing. With more flights on the way, residents can do little but make noise.

Scoop the Tillamook

Second-best is no insult when the ice cream comes from an Oregon dairy co-op ... and tastes this good.

Seeing the light

Anyone who drives Baton Rouge after dark knows the feeling: a car in the oncoming lane—sedan, SUV, doesn't matter—washes your windshield in cold white light, and you squint until it passes, saying a silent prayer that nothing crosses your path until some semblance of vision is

A conservancy: Easier said than done

Ourso wants to elevate its business

Leave the drone at home

Fly a drone near Tiger Stadium this season, and law enforcement won't just tell you to land it. They can jam it, hack it, seize it and come after you for a fine of up to $4,000, up to two years behind bars or both. Why it

Jefferson Greens salad: smoke, no mirrors

A parasite took you out of your salad game. Return and indulge at City Pork, where the house salad is an umami delight.

Goodbye daylight, hello football

Baton Rouge saw its last 8 p.m. sunset of 2026 on July 30, and true to form, it left without so much as a goodbye. From here, it's a slow bleed. A few minutes a night, every night, until the Earth tips us toward the winter solstice

Nashville’s playbook for a better Baton Rouge

Who is Hunden Partners?

The Chicago firm is working on every stop on Baton Rouge's "string of pearls."

Spilling the tea on French Truck

Make no mistake, Baton Rouge is a coffee city. But for those among us with a refined palate, an affection for their English ancestry and a preference for the joy that is black tea, there's no better cup being steeped in what's nominally a coffee shop

LSU joins the billion-dollar club

The university's foundation surpassed $1 billion for the first time, a reason to celebrate. But it's far behind most other SEC schools.

LSU welcomes. Baton Rouge doesn't.

Baton Rouge is missing the chance to tell its story to the audience it craves the most.

The cost of getting old

Louisiana is aging faster than the nation, straining a tax code built for a younger state.

A police department as easy as PhD

Any Louisiana college president—public or private—can create a fully armed police department with one signature and a $10,000 bond. Why it matters: A state that professes a deep love for small, efficient government responds by making it easier to crank up a new police force than to

Baton Rouge losing its lawn-mowing roar

Here and around the country, people are switching to battery-powered mowers for their homes.

Lessons from the perfect storm

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | August 17–23

Why it matters: Friday is the week's anchor—the 10th anniversary of the August 2016 flood gets a retrospective at the Observatory, Ghostbusters gets the roast treatment at Manship and the West Baton Rouge Museum hosts an evening of spoken word, art and live music just across the

PSC may go nuclear on you

The algorithm will see you now

With AI, Louisiana may accelerate its already aggressive strategy to get rid of hepatitis C.

Field of screens

Illinois is on a run. The size of its new scoreboard is a bet that the team will win many more football games.

A lesson in accountability

Baton Rouge's government is a maze. Chelsea has a map.

Fate of Mike Johnson

If the GOP loses in the midterms, the House Speaker from Louisiana is likely to face one of three fates.

Pete Bush pours a comeback

The former LSU first baseman swings for the fences with his BamVino wine label.

Cane, meet Destiny

Galvez Rum is the most recent distillery making rum. A visit to its tasting room will show why it won medals at the international spirits competition this year.

Going big on the bluffs

A building boom at Southern will make room for more academics, more students.

In BRAF we don't trust

Better parks with upkeep

A crowded beat

A crowded beat East Baton Rouge Parish is patrolled by 11 different law enforcement agencies. Why it matters: Between five incorporated cities, three university campuses and a scattering of special-purpose authorities, EBR residents can cross a jurisdictional line just walking down the street—each one policed by a different

An unexpected burger

The American burger on Superior's menu is as delicious as the tasty Mexican fare.

Roux's first day, less scary

Sixty-four kindergartners at Highland Elementary started the school year with a little extra armor against first-day jitters, courtesy of a hometown author and a squad of local changemakers. Julie Gerdes Becnel, who wrote Roux's First Day, teamed up with the Baton Rouge Alliance for Students and

Roads crumble despite billions

Billions in new federal highway money haven't slowed Louisiana's road and bridge backlog. It's more than doubled since 2021.