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Baton Rouge’s popular Mississippi River levee trail draws walkers, runners and cyclists to 12.5...

The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission is wrapping up its round of community open house meetings to solicit feedback for its planned five-year update to the city-parish’s comprehensive master plan. 

A nearly 20-acre undeveloped piece of land in the Highland Lakes subdivision has been sold to an investment group for $4.29 million, according to documents with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office.

Hot and dry weather may limit the yields for some of Louisiana’s most important crops, though the full impact won’t be known until harvest, LSU AgCenter experts say. 

Tensions around efforts to increase diversity in American workplaces had been building for years prior to last week’s Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in the college admissions process, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Baton Rouge traffic is almost always bad, but it will get worse this week. 

The recently closed Franciscan High School may soon be replaced by a Helix Academy school, according to a permit filed with the city-parish

While John Spain is stepping down as executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, a position he has held for two decades, he remains under contract with BRAF for the next two years.

Negotiations are underway to develop the remaining commercial tracts in the Rouzan development off Perkins Road.

Businesses are expecting Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action to reduce the diversity in the pool of highly educated candidates for future jobs, including leadership roles, according to The Wall Street Journal.