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How Baton Rouge could spend less at the pump

La.'s gas taxes are a small gift—with a catch

World Cup: A road trip wrapped in a riddle

Possible team to see in World Cup matches within driving distance

📅 Baton Rouge: Week at a Glance | May 11–17

Why it matters: Hot Art Cool Nights takes over Mid City on Friday, Tommy Prine brings his biggest Baton Rouge stage yet on Saturday and the week opens with a civic celebration of Louisiana's arts community at the Capitol. 🗓️ Monday, May 11 🎨 Arts Day at the Capitol—10

Same map, different outcomes

Drawing outside the lines

Politicians still draw most congressional maps. But a growing number of states—including some Republican-leaning ones—are trying a different approach.

The financial ABCs of public education

City Roots Is Coming to the Perkins Road Overpass

Downtown's bold agenda

Drinking smarter, not harder

BuzzBallz and a wave of ready-to-drink cocktails are rewriting how Gen Z drinks—and so is sobriety.

How to do Hot Art Cool Nights right

Five thousand people. Free admission. Government Street. This Friday. Here's how not to enjoy it.

New plants at lake have a purpose

Along the City Park Lake shoreline, something is coming back to life—or more precisely, being brought back. The University Lakes restoration project, aimed at returning the lakes to something closer to a natural state, is now far enough along that you can actually see it: wild indigos and primrose

LSU's Black enrollment boom

The fifth of mayhem

Cinco de Mayo is not a Baton Rouge holiday. No one gets the day off. No courthouse closes. There is no parade, unless you count the slow procession of SUVs inching toward a margarita machine. Forget Valentine's Day. Forget Pi Day. Forget whatever the restaurant industry invented to

The tap paradox

Baton Rouge tap water just got an A. So why do people still buy water in bottles?

Proposed St. George Schools: by the numbers

13,807: That's the number of school-age children in the City of St. George, according to a 2025 ESRI Business Analyst estimate. The East Baton Rouge Parish School System estimates about 8,400 of its students live in St. George.  The 5,400 gap suggests the city'

Show your work

City-Parish government keeps asking for more money. It should first check whether the current money works.

St. George rewrites the rules

Pothole politics, local style

Baton Rouge slowly discovers the no-mow yard

It's No-Mow May. Let your freak yard fly.

Old is the new new

Turns out, humans still like each other in person.