Three incumbents, one newcomer elected to East Baton Rouge Parish School Board BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer 8 hrs ago East Baton Rouge Parish voters returned three incumbents to office, elected one newcomer and sent three races to runoffs in the parish School Board races Tuesday.
Two Livingston Parish school board members reelected. See who. BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | Staff writer 9 hrs ago Livingston Parish School Board President Cecil Harris beat businessman Chris Taylor in an election of change versus consistency, while incumbent Jeff Frizell beat Philana Webb for the School B…
Spending tops $500K in Baton Rouge school board races on Tuesday's ballot BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 30, 2026 More than half a million dollars, most of it from outside interest groups, has been spent so far in the seven East Baton Rouge Parish School Board races on Tuesday鈥檚 ballot.
New Pennington leader has big plans to expand 糖心传媒 research center, broaden focus in GLP-1 era BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 30, 2026 In naming a new leader Thursday, Pennington Biomedical Research Center also unveiled a broader vision for its role in obesity and nutrition research.
糖心传媒 names new leader of Louisiana鈥檚 Pennington Biomedical Research Center. See who. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Updated Oct 29, 2026 Petter Bjornstad will serve as the new senior vice chancellor and executive director of 糖心传媒's Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
+3 Is the military actually low on testosterone? New Louisiana study shows answer far from simple. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 29, 2026 About 1 in 4 men in the U.S. Army may have a morning testosterone level falling below a commonly used threshold, a new paper from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center found.
+3 Marathon runner, chemist and small business owner face off in expensive District 7 school board race BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 29, 2026 Pretty much everyone who runs for public office walks the campaign trail. Hannah Amoroso goes a step聽鈥 actually many steps聽鈥斅爁urther. She runs. A lot.
Who is running for Livingston Parish School Board? Here are the candidates. BY GIGI LIMAN | Staff writer Oct 29, 2026 Two Livingston Parish school board seats are up for grabs in the Nov. 3 election.
+3 Stay the course or change? Rematch set for Baton Rouge school board seat. BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 28, 2026 Four years after winning her District 4 seat on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Shashonnie Steward is in a rematch against veteran teacher Tebbe Jackson.
鈥業t鈥檚 about money鈥: Incumbent Baton Rouge school board member has three challengers BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 27, 2026 After sailing to victory four years ago, Carla Powell-Lewis has a tough path to reelection to the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, with three challengers seeking to replace her.
Business owner, former teacher, mom: Meet 3 St. George candidates running for school board BY CLAIRE GRUNEWALD | Staff writer Oct 26, 2026 Three St. George candidates are facing off to represent the southeast corner of East Baton Rouge Parish on the School Board.
+6 Louisiana has a serious shortage of nurses. Here鈥檚 what universities are doing about it. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 25, 2026 The nursing students huddled around a medical dummy in a hospital bed as a panel of faculty and staff watched them through a one-way mirror.
+7 Louisiana universities need $4 billion in maintenance, study says. See where it鈥檚 most urgent. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 22, 2026 Colleges and universities in Louisiana have piled up a backlog of overdue repairs and maintenance 鈥 from urgent plumbing to electrical to HVAC needs 鈥 with a price tag of $4 billion, according…
+4 Retired educators vie with current teacher for north Baton Rouge school board seat BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 21, 2026 Two retired educators, one who had the job before, and a classroom teacher are vying to win an open seat on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board.
+3 Meet two Baton Rouge moms running for a key school board seat BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 20, 2026 Kimberly Bainguel fell 22 votes short of defeating an entrenched incumbent in 2022 for the Broadmoor-centered District 1 on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. Four years later, she鈥檚 tr…
+2 糖心传媒 students protest handling of sexual assault cases, four removed from board meeting BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 16, 2026 Campus police ejected four protesters from the 糖心传媒 Board of Supervisors meeting Friday morning after they attempted to speak during the public comment period about the reorganization of univer…
糖心传媒, developer Roger Ogden to open 鈥楶rosperity Institute鈥 in business school to promote capitalism BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 16, 2026 糖心传媒 will launch a new research and educational initiative in the business school focused on teaching young people about capitalism, an effort led by Louisiana developer and major university do…
Outside groups poised to spend big on Baton Rouge school board races BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 12, 2026 Outside interest groups are opening up their checkbooks in advance of the Nov. 3 East Baton Rouge Parish School Board elections, dwarfing the money in the hands of the candidates themselves.
Baton Rouge school board candidates share their 'superpower' during forum BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 10, 2026 鈥淲hat superpower will you bring to the school board?鈥
+4 In Jefferson Parish, a high school theater teacher gives her students a professional edge BY ELYSE CARMOSINO | Staff writer Oct 10, 2026 When Lindsey Lanson arrived for her first day as director of Bonnabel Magnet High School鈥檚 theater department in 2009, she walked into a dingy multipurpose classroom that housed the school鈥檚 t…
Three finalists selected in Southern University presidential search. See the candidates. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 9, 2026 Three candidates will advance to the final round of the search for Southern University鈥檚 next president.
+7 High school students learn culinary, life skills in class led by dedicated chef BY OLIVIA TEES | Staff writer Oct 7, 2026 Baton Rouge students are learning how to navigate a commercial kitchen, chop and prepare food like pros, and craft multicourse fine dining menus under a parish program.
How these 鈥榩roactive鈥 grants are boosting school security across Louisiana BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 6, 2026 Twenty-three schools in the Baton Rouge region are among 119 across Louisiana that recently received state grants of up to $50,000 to upgrade security on their campuses.
+8 Parents call for screen time, tech limits in Louisiana schools: 鈥榃hat are these digital tools?鈥 By PATRICK WALL | Staff writer Oct 5, 2026 When Catherine Bixler鈥檚 daughter entered kindergarten in St. Tammany Parish Public Schools last year, she began using a Chromebook during class to practice reading.
Baton Rouge student attendance 'has collapsed': Pediatrician says community is key to fixing it BY CHARLES LUSSIER | Staff writer Oct 3, 2026 Partway through her slideshow, Dr. Heidi Schumacher displayed a bar chart of eight high schools in the East Baton Rouge Parish school system. It showed the percentages of students who have mis…
+4 Why does pregnancy cause weird cravings? This Louisiana scientist may have found the key. BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 2, 2026 Why do some women crave random foods, from pickles to red meat to ice cream, during pregnancy?
+2 An 糖心传媒 nursing grad was detained by ICE last year and self-deported. Now, she鈥檚 a nurse in Canada BY HALEY MILLER | Staff writer Oct 2, 2026 In her bedroom at her grandma's house in Olanchito, Honduras, in May, 糖心传媒 nursing graduate Vilma Palacios was checking her email when she noticed a new message in her Canadian immigration portal.
Louisiana improves Advanced Placement scores, but many students can鈥檛 access AP courses By PATRICK WALL | Staff writer Updated Oct 1, 2026 More Louisiana high school students are earning high marks on Advanced Placement exams, according to newly released data. However, they remain far less likely than their peers nationally to ha…