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• Traveling? Check out this list of new restrictions, reopenings before planning your itinerary

  August 21, 2021 5:47 PM

  With leading health experts urging individuals to take extra precautions so as not to spread COVID-19, nearly every sector of the world's industries are adjusting the rules that guide their daily activities. Included among these is the travel industry. Airlines continue to implement a host of new COVID-related procedures.... more »

• Two hospitalized after truck hits train on Government Street

  February 10, 2019 12:14 PM

  BATON ROUGE- Two people were hospitalized after a truck ran into a stopped train early Sunday morning. According to authorities, emergency crews responded around 2 a.m. to the accident that happened in the 1400 block of Government Street. The two patients were transported to the hospital with injuries... more »

• Livingston Parish train traffic to triple in wake of spillway fire

  February 15, 2016 2:52 PM

  GONZALES - Emergency officials in Livingston Parish say they’re expecting an overall increase in train traffic through the parish due to a fire on the Bonnet Carré Spillway. Trains are being rerouted through Livingston Parish into Baton Rouge from New Orleans as the railroad trestle that caught fire will... more »

• Flooding means more trains passing through Livingston Parish

  January 14, 2016 5:24 PM

  LIVINGSTON - Police officers in Livingston Parish want drivers to be alert since more trains will be passing through the area after the opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway. Livingston Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Mark Harrell says the parish will have an extra three or... more »