BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The race for mayor-president in East Baton Rouge Parish is headed to a runoff between incumbent Democrat Sharon Weston Broome and Republican Emile “Sid” Edwards.

The race for East Baton Rouge Parish mayor-president appears to be neck-and-neck between three candidates who all are within a few hundred votes of each other, according to early election returns.

A "yes" vote supported renewing two tax rates totaling $610 per $100,000 of assessed property value to fund the acquisition, development, maintenance, and operation of public parks and recreational ...

A "yes" vote supported amending the Plan of Government of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, including renumbering as needed, in accordance with Article VI, Section 5 of the ...

No. 16 LSU (6-2, 3-1) will take on Jalen Milroe and the Alabama Crimson Tide in Week 11 with the Southeastern Conference showdown set to kickoff at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC. Both programs will be idle ...

Early voting wrapped up Tuesday in Louisiana and voters in the Bayou State broke all kinds of records. WRKF’s Capital Access reporter Brooke Thorington speaks with Joel Watson, director of ...

UPDATE: The crash site was cleared and traffic resumed as normal just after midnight Wednesday morning, police said. Officials said one person was critically injured as a result of this incident ...

St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office is searching for a Baton Rouge man seen on camera stealing multiple ATMs in St. John and other parishes. Alfred Roy Cobb, 32, of Baton Rouge was identified as ...

And following the push to promote the lifeline in East Baton Rouge Parish, 988 is getting a lot more attention, specifically in EBR. That’s according to Sherrard Crespo, the Vice President of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama‘s trip to Baton Rouge in less than two week’s is now confirmed to be a night game in Death Valley. ESPN announced Monday that the annual showdown between the Crimson ...

On Nov. 5, East Baton Rouge Parish voters will decide the fate of a set of sweeping changes to the city-parish’s Plan of Government. Among the most substantive changes is the proposal to do away ...

This week, the race for Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge took a hostile turn when incumbent Sharon Weston Broome’s campaign released an attack advertisement on challenger Ted James.