The race for East Baton Rouge Parish mayor-president is unusually competitive this year, with seven candidates vying for the job.

At 32, Jordan Piazza is running for mayor of Baton Rouge to keep young people from leaving E Eric Guirard, Baton Rouge lawyer famed for TV commercials, plans unconventional run for mayor +6 ...

B ATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – The Baton Rouge Area Chamber announced that four candidates who are in the running to be the next mayor of Baton Rouge are taking part in the East Baton Rouge ...

The Baton Rouge Police Department has released a medical update on the police sergeant who was intentionally run over on his police motorcycle last month.

The council District 12 race, which is vacant after Delgado decided to run for mayor-president, has the most candidates at six.

EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - We’re now getting a better look at who is running for mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish in the fall. Two people have officially said they’re ...

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 election will be on Saturday ...

The city of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish merged the governments in 1947 and the mayor-president serves as the executive for both the parish and the city.

Greg LaFleur's introduction to the Baton Rouge community came in 1976, when LaFleur, a tight end from Ville Platte, Louisiana, made the 90-minute journey east to join the LSU football team.

Baton Rouge is ready for new leadership. The Dec. 10 mayoral election has been reshaped by a series of tragedies this summer. On July 5, the death of Alton Sterling made Baton Rouge the site of ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we speak with Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome about the scandal around the police department’s unmonitored warehouse interrogation facility dubbed ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced Thomas Morse Jr. as Baton Rouge's next police chief on Thursday afternoon. Morse, the current commander of the training services ...