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• Sunday PM Forecast: No issues for New Year's Eve celebrations, rain returns into 2024 Play Video

  December 31, 2023 6:36 PM

  The weather poses no issues for any New Year’s Eve celebrations. That said, a few showers are possible on New Year's Day as our next cold front arrives. That marks the beginning of an unsettled weather pattern that will be with us for the rest of the week. Tonight... more »

• Sunday PM Forecast: Near freezing early Monday, a more seasonable afternoon Play Video

  December 10, 2023 5:12 PM

  The chill has arrived, and it gets even colder into Monday morning. Many will flirt with the freezing mark again. The rest of the week looks quiet and rather uneventful. That changes next weekend as our next storm system approaches. Tonight & Tomorrow : After Saturday night’s cold front,... more »

• Parish officials make final push to have Ascension voters approve sewage sale Play Video

  April 19, 2021 8:46 PM

  Monday marks the end of a large-scale campaign to convince Ascension Parish residents that going private is the right thing to do. Meetings, ads, and billboards all advertising the need for voters to approve the sale of the parish's sewage system to NWI. "This is a no-brainer," councilmember... more »

• Livingston Parish Public Schools announces response plan for COVID-19

  March 14, 2020 6:43 PM

  LIVINGSTON PARISH - Livingston Parish Public Schools Superintendent, Joe Murphy, has sent out a response plan due to closures caused by the coronavirus. Superintendent Murphy stated in a letter sent out on Saturday: LIVINGSTON, La. – Livingston Parish Public Schools Superintendent Joe Murphy released a letter today (March... more »

• OMV system that never came to fruition still costing taxpayers money Play Video

  January 8, 2020 6:46 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Nearly a decade after state officials pulled the plug on a failed system that was supposed to streamline things at the Office of Motor Vehicles, taxpayers are still on the hook for it. Five years ago, the WBRZ Investigative Unit exposed contracts where the state spent at... more »

• Water running black or not at all in East Feliciana town Play Video

  November 29, 2017 6:37 PM

  JACKSON - There are about 300 customers in East Feliciana Parish that have been dealing with water problems for nearly a week. The water has been coming out of the tap black, other times there's no water at all. The East Feliciana Rural Water System tells 2 On Your... more »

• Alarm system 'deal' turned out to be anything but Play Video

  August 25, 2017 6:19 PM

  PORT ALLEN - Security alarm representatives are going door to door in Port Allen. One man was convinced he'd been sold a deal, but it turns out he wasn't provided with the whole truth. John Morris thought he was getting a fair price for his Vivint security system, but... more »

• Security customer alarmed by company charges, little help Play Video

  August 22, 2017 7:07 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Six months of back and forth with an alarm company has pushed a woman over the edge. Joyce Reed says she's been paying Safe Home Security for the past year, but the alarm system has not been working. It's been disconnected since the August 2016 flood,... more »

• New speed limit in effect for Staring Lane; drivers being monitored Play Video

  July 10, 2017 7:11 PM

  BATON ROUGE – A new speed limit is now in effect on Staring Lane and a new digital monitoring system has been regulating drivers' speed. The speed monitor sits in the median to remind drivers to slow down. City-Parish traffic engineers made a compromise with residents after... more »

• Louisiana water systems crumbling Play Video

  April 25, 2017 8:02 PM

  ST. JOSEPH - Residents in St. Joseph, Louisiana are not surprised their town has the worst drinking water in the state. The rural system has levels of lead equal to Flint, Michigan, but it's not the reason people don't drink the water. No one has quenched their thirst from... more »

• AG: Man arrested for stealing more than $400,000 from teacher's retirement system

  April 6, 2017 4:48 PM

  BATON ROUGE – A man has been arrested after the Attorney General's office says that he took more than $400,000 from the Louisiana Teacher's Retirement System over a span of several years. Lester Joseph II, 42, was arrested on 201 counts of felony theft and two counts of identity... more »

• Motorcycle engine malfunction causes fire at business on Airline Highway

  June 11, 2016 12:56 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Fire Department says an electrical malfunction in a motorcycle engine caused a fire at a business on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge Friday night. Crews were called to Audio & Security Systems in the 9500 block of Airline Highway at... more »

• Search for permanent CATS CEO begins

  April 8, 2016 2:22 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The CATS board accepted Bob Mirabito's resignation and named his interim replacement at a special meeting Friday afternoon. William "Bill" Deville, who has more than 30 years of transit management experience and has been with CATS since December 2013. Deville started as the Chief Operation... more »

• Bakerfield elementary school on 'fire watch' Play Video

  December 9, 2015 6:14 PM

  BAKER - Administrators who are over the 175 students at Bakerfield Elementary School are all on alert. The school is under a fire watch because the fire alarm system is broken. The discovery was first made in August, during a routine fire drill. Every since then, the two... more »