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Downtown Baton Rouge to get more residential housing in 2018

After landing several hotel and apartment developments and a crop of new restaurants in...

Construction on Bayou Bridge Pipeline could soon begin; opponents push for more studies

BRIDGING THE BAYOU: A sign marks the area of a pipeline in the Atchafalaya...

New sports bar and grill, Creole restaurant coming to Third Street downtown

Principals from some of Baton Rouge’s most popular new eateries are teaming up to...

As cord-cutting continues, cable fights back

Companies like Cox Communications are offering new pay-TV options to keep customers, but they...

Walk-On’s looks to ‘introduce ourselves to the rest of the country’ via Independence Bowl

With just a little more than two weeks until the Walk-On’s Independence Bowl, the...

Has time come to end post-flood zoning waiver in Baton Rouge?

In the wake of the August 2016 flood, the Metro Council suspended the local...

Cook: Sonic to close Prairieville location

The Sonic Drive-In situated on the east side of Airline Highway in Prairieville, just...

Take a look inside 500 Laurel

Built in 1955, the six-story building had fallen into disrepair before Dyke Nelson and...

JR Ball: The audacity of questioning a police tax

If Baton Rouge politicians—regardless of party affiliation—have learned anything in their unending quest for...

Riegel: Moving past the ‘Mad Men’ antics

I was riding a spin bike at the gym on the morning longtime NBC...