BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - - The Belle of Baton Rouge Hotel has rebranded as Bally’s Baton Rouge Hotel. The announcement follows the recent merger of Bally’s Corporation with the Belle’s ...

Downtown Baton Rouge has been transformed by two master plans for the area, which led to more than $3 billion in new investments across the central business district over the past two decades and ...

Voters in parts of Baton Rouge and Lafayette will decide Saturday who will fill two vacant Senate seats in the Louisiana Legislature. Democrats Quentin Anthony Anderson, Carolyn Hill and Larry ...

A Baton Rouge man convicted of molesting an 8-year-old boy faces a mandatory life sentence Thursday when he's scheduled to learn his fate, after a judge rejected his claims state prosecutors ...

Zoe Saldaña, who won best supporting actress, didn't back down when a reporter pressed her about criticism the film has drawn for its depiction of Mexico. "First of all, I'm very, very sorry that ...

Louisiana officials plan to permanently close the Washington Street exit from Interstate 10 eastbound in Baton Rouge, saying it causes drivers to weave in and out of lanes and clog up traffic.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A man is dead in connection with a shooting in Baton Rouge on Monday evening, February 17. The East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 32-year-old ...

The 46-year-old called out her mother onstage at the Dolby Theatre. As Zoe Saldaña got up onstage to accept her Academy Award for best supporting actress Sunday night, she looked around the Dolby ...

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum at the “Blink Twice” premiere in Los Angeles, California, in August 2024. AFP via Getty Images “Not at all,” she said. “I love this thing that we made ...

Her work has previously appeared in theGrio, Shondaland and ESSENCE GU. Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Zoe Saldaña shared an adorable moment with her family backstage at the 2025 Oscars.

The look came complete with mesh cutouts and some silver beading Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has previously appeared ...

After winning the BAFTA Award for best supporting actress, “Emilia Pérez” star Zoe Saldaña dedicated the prize — and the film itself — to her trans nephew. Though she didn’t have time ...