BATON ROUGE - Bike lanes, paths and shared-use roads have almost tripled in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2009. In 2009, Amanda LaGrange, a grants coordinator in the Mayor's Office overseeing the bike program, tells The Advocate there were only 23 miles of bike routes, and now there are 68... more »
BATON ROUGE- The League of American Bicyclist named Baton Rouge the first "Bike Friendly" city in the state.
The city was awarded bronze level status for it's encouragement, but was not rated on four other factors including: engineering, education, enforcement and evaluation.
New Orleans is the only other... more »
BATON ROUGE - Some city workers are headed to the classroom. Metro Council passed an ordinance that requires city workers who drive city vehicles to... more »
BATON ROUGE- Lawmakers are poised to streamline laws dealing with surrogacy births in Louisiana.
Some have suggested surrogacy births are currently taking place without... more »
FRENCH SETTLEMENT- A man and woman face charges for crimes against nature and child pornography.
Doyle Trauth, 42, and Lisa Trauth were arrested after... more »
BATON ROUGE - Questions surround the state Capitol after the Legislative Auditor told the Republican Party of Louisiana to hand over financial documents.
"State... more »
BELMAR, NEW JERSEY- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says keep the politics out of getting aid to people in Oklahoma trying to recover from a... more »