Livingston News

Some of the nominees for Uniformed Trooper of the Year stand on stage at the Louisiana State Police's annual awards ceremony Thursday in Baton Rouge.

For Rose Sabre, the worst part of having the bridge to her community closed came when an ambulance reached it and couldn't get to her home.

Hard rain from a severe thunderstorm roared through Baton Rouge early Friday and caused headaches for morning commuters with power outages, school closures, street flooding and a building fire sparked by a direct lightning strike.

Workers install optics inside laser beam splitter chamber at the Livingston Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory as part of a $205 million upgrade.

Hard rain from a severe thunderstorm that slowly moved through the Baton Rouge area early Friday morning has caused street flooding and some power outages.

The Livingston Parish Council voted 6-2 Thursday night to put a proposed property tax for mosquito abatement before voters in October.

Two oil tanks that have been on fire for more than 8 hours will have to burn for another two to three hours before firefighters can smothered the blaze with foam, authorities said Friday morning.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers tests will require students in the third through 12th grades - or more than 18,885 students in Livingston Parish - to take the assessments on computers, Instruction Supervisor Joe Murphy told the School Board.

A state district judge set bail at $500,000 during arraignment proceedings Wednesday for a Livingston Parish woman accused of the "murder for hire" killing of her husband in West Baton Rouge Parish.

Those of you in the southern part of Livingston Parish may want to top your gas tanks before this weekend.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development holds a meeting for the public on the proposed widening of Juban Road from Interstate 12 to Florida Boulevard and construction of three roundabouts.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for central Livingston Parish until 4:45 p.m. At 3:12 p.m., meteorologists detected a thunderstorm capable of producing flash flooding over that area, including the cities of Walker and Livingston.

The Livingston Parish Council's attorney, Chris Moody, withdrew from a high-profile lawsuit Thursday, saying that doing so would improve his relationship with the council and the administration.

A tornado watch was issued Wednesday for much of southeast Louisiana, including Baton Rouge and New Orleans, according to a National Weather Service alert.

The Louisiana House passed bills Tuesday to outlaw synthetic cannabis, known as "Spice" or K-2, as well as the synthetic hallucinigen 25-I. Here, a poster warning of the effects of the drug known as 'spice' hangs on a wall at the Naval Hospital in San Diego.

A bill that would establish a special state funding to pay for infrastructure improvements at the proposed Juban Crossing mixed-use development in Livingston Parish passed a key test on Monday.