Local government officials estimated Tuesday that nearly 53,000 residences, 3,800 commercial buildings and 1,800 public buildings in East Baton Rouge Parish ... city-parish flood maps continue ...

The first image shows a normal night, the second was taken the night of the flood. The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has used the maps to estimate that more than 140,000 homes in the metropolitan area ...

I was living in Baton Rouge in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit ... Jennifer Anne Moses is the author of four books, includingBagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou. You can find her on the ...

A flood watch is in effect for much of the state, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, until 7 a.m. Saturday ... with a web-based app that has a map that shows flood conditions in real-time.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Even when floodwater ... Monticello sits on relatively higher ground. Even today, flood insurance rate maps show a large majority of the neighborhood is above the 100 ...

If it feels like roads around Baton Rouge have gotten a bit less bumpy, thank the city-parish's IT department. Over the past few months, the number of pot holes on city-parish roads went from more ...

Baton Rouge-area leaders are pushing for urgency in the completion of a $225 million flood-fighting project ... this project has been on the books for decades and the funding secured for a while ...

The principal of a Catholic elementary school in Baton Rouge, La., said many people both ... “They lost personal things, too, books and toys,” Sarosy said. Janice Reynolds, life skills ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Students at one Baton Rouge school celebrated moving back into their flood-damaged classrooms with a book party. Conn's Homeplus hosted the book reading party for ...

"The policy book ... Baton Rouge community banded together to return life to some semblance of normalcy, more staff began returning to work. For them, work offered a respite from the chaos of the ...

I was living in Baton Rouge, La., in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina ... Jennifer Anne Moses is the author of four books, including “Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou.” ...