Baton Rouge, LA

The first full week of September will offer up a very typical summer recipe. That means expect more hot temperatures in the 90s, high humidity, and pop-up storms. Labor Day: The few showers and storms that we did see Sunday will fizzle out overnight. Lows will reach into the mid-70s. Labor Day is shaping up to be a hot one, with highs reaching the mid-90s. Unfortunately, heat alerts are back! A Heat Advisory has been issued from 11AM - 7PM. Heat index values will approach 110°

BATON ROUGE — Emergency officials are currently responding to a reported shooting that left one person injured on Harding Boulevard at Elton C. Harrison Street on Sunday evening. The shooting occurred around 6:10 p.m. near Southern University's Baton Rouge campus. The university issued a statement an hour after the shooting, saying that the situation was under control and no students were involved. "At this time there is no known threat to the Southern University ca

BATON ROUGE - Southern University lost power Sunday while crews repaired a transformer. A message sent out shortly after 6:45 p.m. said that internet and WiFi on campus might also be affected by the intermittent outages. WBRZ previously reported that Southern was closed Tuesday due to a campus-wide outage. WBRZ reached out to the university regarding the cause. We did not hear back. No information has been provided on when the power will be permanently restored.Perma

BATON ROUGE — The Old Governor's Mansion hosted its "Fall Into History" event, giving attendees a look at pieces from other museum's collections that aren't normally on display.The event was held in partnership with the West Baton Rouge Museum, the Baton Rouge African American Museum and LSU Special Collections, with the goal of giving the community a deeper look into history. Each museum brought items to put on display in the Mansion. Attendees were also able to make their

BATON ROUGE - No matter what the outside opinion of Lane Kiffin and LSU football is, the Tigers still had a football game to play on Saturday night, albeit quite a bit later than originally intended after a lengthy weather delay.If Kiffin's Tigers were at all distracted by all the attention the team has received in recent weeks following the courtroom drama surrounding former NFL players returning to college to attempt to play for LSU, they did a very good job hiding it as LSU pummeled Clemson

DONALDSONVILLE — Hyundai-Posco Louisiana Steel held its Heart and Seoul Festival on Sunday at Louisiana Square in Donaldsonville.The festival is part of its community outreach as construction of the $5.8 billion steel mill begins in the area. Attendees enjoyed live music, food and fun activities. Officials broke ground on the mill on Friday. Hyundai leaders say they expect to start commercial production at the facility during the first quarter of 2029.Permalink| Com

NEW ORLEANS — Over 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses being sold on the dark web may be linked to a New Orleans-based identity-verification company, according to a report by nola.com.The breach has led to an investigation by the FBI to determine if the leaked government-issued documents, including medical identification documents and travel IDs, stemmed from a local cybersecurity firm called IDScan. IDScan sells products that provide several ID-verification serv

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas, according to a

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Sunday renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal judge blocked new restrictions on mail ballots ahead of the midterms. The filing came after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani extended an order against the Postal Service enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order for the November elections. The legal wrangling comes even as states start sending out mail ballots, leaving the administr

BATON ROUGE — As LSU football returned home on Saturday, one tailgate group near Alex Box Stadium made sure it stood out from the crowd. The group called KDST has been tailgating for more than 20 years, with one of their most talked-about setups being a firetruck a member traded for a Mustang. "My buddy Shawn here, he had a Mustang, he traded it straight up for the firetruck," said Stephen "Doc" Cannon. "It was stripped out. He since has outfitted it with the TVs, t