The task force includes personnel from Baton Rouge, Zachary, West Feliciana, East Side and Shreveport fire departments.

The engineers toiling away on East Baton Rouge Parish's Stormwater Master Plan said Thursday they've collected all the data they need to build the models that will predict flood risks ...

After the historic floods, drinking-water service to nearly 3,000 Baton Rouge-area homes was disconnected for not timely paying their bills despite the governor’s emergency order for the company ...

When construction on Baton Rouge's biggest-ever flood control project started in 2019, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projected the then-roughly $500 million plan would be finished by the end of ...

While Walmart had already donated $100,000 to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank after the floods in August, the company donated another $100,000 to the organization.

The flood is just the latest big story to hit Baton Rouge in recent months as the newspaper has grappled with the city’s turbulent news. In early July, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man ...

Most of Louisiana’s $1.6 billion dollars in federal flood recovery money has been dedicated to homeowners. But thousands of businesses also need financial… ...

Acres will be destroyed to reduce levee pressure around Baton Rouge, Big Easy. May 13, 2011 — -- Louisiana residents are being warned today: The Army Corps of Engineers will open the Morganza ...

I was living in Baton Rouge in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit and what seemed like half the population of New Orleans ended up in my neighborhood; and again, only a month later, when Rita — an ...

To stop Baton Rouge floods, they’re carving a 12-mile river. To stop Baton Rouge floods, they’re carving a 12-mile river . The (Baton Rouge) Advocate // May 16, 2022 // ... “This is a much less ...

Aerials of flooding in Baton Rouge, La. following record-breaking rainfall and flooding August 14, 2016. (Photos by G. Andrew Boyd, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016: With Baton ...