Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill that allows mayors from Baker, Central, St. George and Zachary to appoint BREC board members.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The East Baton Rouge Head Start program, a cornerstone of early childhood education in the parish for over four decades, is on the brink of shutting down due to stalled federal ...

Former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden passed away on Wednesday at the age of 72, leaving behind his wife Lois, five children, and two sisters. Skip to content.

BREC could become part of the East Baton Rouge city-parish government under a proposal filed Thursday in the state Legislature, where a prior attempt to dismantle the parks agency failed several ...

Multiple charges are possible in the Caleb Wilson death case, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore.According to the Baton Rouge NBC station Louisiana First News ...

What to know about voting. Early voting for the special primary election runs from Feb. 1 to Feb. 8, except Sunday. There are four early voting locations in East Baton Rouge Parish: City Hall, the ...

Baton Rouge Head Start serves less than half the 3- and 4-year-olds it served pre-pandemic. To recover, early childhood agency proposes to use money for service and to fund big employee pay raises.

East Baton Rouge Parish is working to move past distrust between police and the communities they serve, to heal from trauma, and to bring a greater sense of safety to the city.

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, Dr. Lee Griffin, Executive Director of LaForce, and Vernadine Marby, Director of Human Development and Services for Baton Rouge, discuss the launch of the Head ...

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome on Tuesday announced several changes designed to revamp East Baton Rouge Parish's Head Start program, including a new private management partnership for early ...

The East Baton Rouge Parish School System has announced an historic football jamboree that will be taking place on Thursday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Aug. 30 at Southern University's A.W. Mumford Stadium.