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Plastic-making giant Shintech Louisiana can skip paying Iberville Parish nearly $110 million in local taxes after a majority of council members approved a sizable tax break for the company.

Houses stood as islands along an Ascension Parish community Monday as ibises and other waterfowl amassed in flooded yards, while residents shuttled supplies using boats and kayaks across the floodwater.

Even before torrential rain this week drenched Baton Rouge, swamped cars and flooded houses, the capital region was seeing one of the wettest springs on record.

Louis “Pete” Kelley was sitting in his chair outside his home near Bayou Sorrel Friday morning when he heard a loud pop followed by gushing water.

Heavy rains are expected to fall across an already rain-weary Baton Rouge metro Thursday, as weather officials warned that high waters in ponds and bayous could lead to more flash

Authorities in Pointe Coupee Parish were searching Tuesday for a man who they say fatally shot a woman and injured man over the weekend.

John and Jan Intres were getting ready to watch a TV show in bed Monday evening when they heard gurgling water creeping up outside their home.

Police in White Castle shot and injured a man following a chase Friday that ended with an exchange of gunfire, according to authorities.

An arbitrator has ruled that a CATS bus driver was unjustly fired and should get his job back, the latest in a longstanding feud between Baton Rouge’s public transit system

A longtime Baton Rouge lawyer was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he tried to smuggle prescription painkillers into the West Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of sexual abuse of children.

With winds up to 140 mph, a tornado that carved a nine-mile path through St. Landry Parish on April 9 into the next morning killed one person, injured seven and

Balloons floated into the sky over the Port Allen High School softball field Friday as family, classmates and loved ones gathered to remember Jazzimane Woods, a 15-year-old who officials say

Port Allen High School this week will gather to mourn a student who was fatally shot while inside an apartment this past weekend.

The former mayor of White Castle, who was accused of illegally reimbursing himself more than $2,000 while in office, will serve three years of probation after pleading no contest Wednesday

A Port Allen officer who was arrested after stun-gunning a handcuffed man yelling for help from the back of a police cruiser has resigned.

Officials in Port Allen plan to recommend dismissal of a police officer recorded on body camera last month stun-gunning a handcuffed man as he screamed for help in the back

Jurors will return Monday for the second week of a trial for a Baton Rouge man accused of targeting and gunning down two Black men in a streak of violence

In the trial of a White man accused of targeting and fatally shooting two Black men in a streak of fall 2017 shootings, prosecutors on Saturday spent much of their

A woman who says she saw a 59-year-old homeless man shot and killed during what prosecutors called a “four-day streak of terror” in 2017 spoke through tears Friday while describing