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• IRS sends CATS half-million-dollar seizure notice, some board members unaware Play Video

  September 6, 2022 5:29 PM

  BATON ROUGE- Documents obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit show the IRS sent the Capital Area Transit System a $515,859.50 seizure notice for unpaid employer shared responsibility payments for the tax period ending in 2017. Watch live newscasts here A spokeswoman for CATS told WBRZ, the bus system... more »

• CATS will shutter riderless Garden District route

  September 19, 2016 4:46 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Tuesday, the board overseeing the public bus company agreed to shut down its Garden District trolley service. CATS created the route through the historic neighborhood about 18 months ago. Combustion engine buses built to look like trolleys run the route that drives through Downtown Baton Rouge,... more »

• CATS CEO quits Tuesday; read his resignation here Play Video

  April 5, 2016 7:36 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Bob Mirabito, the often-criticized chief of the city's public transit system has resigned. Mirabito wrote to the Capital Area Transit System board, he will leave his post as CEO on May 6. Mirabito said he will return to the private sector where he is "most comfortable."... more »