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Which Baton Rouge restaurants are now open

Many Baton Rouge-area restaurants are still without power and service post Hurricane Ida, but some are up and running again. 

Should Louisiana’s power transmission lines be underground? 

While the levee systems improvements made after Hurricane Katrina held up to flooding, electricity...

Firms estimate Hurricane Ida caused more than $15B in losses 

Powerful storm surges caused by Hurricane Ida could cause close to $20 billion in...

EBR debris removal plan activated; regular trash pickup resumes

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome today announced the activation of the parish’s emergency debris removal...

Louisiana could be a ‘pandemic tinderbox’ in Hurricane Ida’s wake 

Experts are concerned that Hurricane Ida's impact will worsen the spread of COVID-19 in...

Regulators reject key part of railroad deal tied to BR passenger rail  

Canadian National’s $33.6 billion deal to acquire Kansas City Southern railroad is in jeopardy...
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Gasoline shortage is bad and could get worse before it gets better

If you’ve been out and about today and experienced long lines at the gas pump, get used to it.

Red Stick Social, coffee shops providing cool air, internet and a break from Ida

Red Stick Social, inside the restored Electric Depot on Government Street, plans to open...

More than half of Baton Rouge still without power 

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has been tracking all available data related to power...

Port Fourchon, refineries out for weeks, raising short- and long-term questions

When Hurricane Ida blasted ashore, its 150 mile per hour winds not only laid waste to southeast Louisiana but to the nation’s fossil fuel infrastructure.
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