123 posts
West Baton Rouge Parish honored Port Allen High graduate and Catholic High baseball coach Brad Bass, winner of five state championships, at the Sept. 24 parish council meeting. "That place found me, and it changed my life," he said.
October 02, 2026
Work on the LA 415 Connector is set to begin in December, DOTD says. But a DOTD administrator put the construction cost at about $550 million, double the $268 million on the project’s website, and the parish is being asked to take over a private road the design depends on
October 01, 2026
West Baton Rouge Parish's combined tax rate rose to 101.4 mills this year, and nearly all of the increase came from the school board. Here's what it means for your bill, who pays most of it and five property tax amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot.
September 30, 2026
Households in Brusly, Addis and unincorporated West Baton Rouge Parish would pay $2.19 more a month for garbage pickup under a proposal the parish council votes on Oct. 8. The parish says the new rate would first show up on bills mailed in December.
September 29, 2026
Local business owners told a West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Addis how they're using AI at work, from a refinery building its own software to marketers keeping AI out of the final draft. Their shared rule: a person still has to own the result.
September 24, 2026
Brusly asked the state for about $600,000 to cover sewer project overruns. The approval came back far higher. The town’s engineer thought it was a typo, but he says the state is letting Brusly keep the $573,880 difference. It comes with strings, and the project isn’t done.
September 23, 2026
The WBR Parish Council denied a $4,000 change order on the Court Street Sidewalk Project after Councilman Alan Crowe challenged the math line by line — then discovered the same engineering firm made a separate $72,000 error on the same project.
September 22, 2026
Parish Assessor Christopher Guerin told the School Board that roughly $1.4 billion in ITEP contracts will expire by the end of 2027, generating millions in new recurring property tax revenue for the district. About half of all parish property taxes go to the school system.
September 16, 2026
The Addis Town Council awarded contracts for the 2026 Road Rehab Project and Harris Avenue Drainage Project at its September 8 meeting. Both came in well under engineer estimates as increased competition drove prices down. The council also heard police and public works reports.
September 15, 2026
