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Posted 6:08 AM 4/13/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — The Parade of Houses is back in the Capital region! 

The two-weekend event allows the community to tour houses from local builders, explore the latest design trends and get inspiration to bring their own dream home to life.

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Posted 6:32 AM 4/9/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — Every year, WBRZ teams up with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to raise money for children's cancer research through the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway. 

This year, the big prize is a $550,000 (More)

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Posted 6:52 AM 4/8/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — Every 40 seconds, a person suffers a stroke in the United States; every four minutes, someone dies from one.

One local stroke survivor, Jdele Brignac, and her husband, Chad Brignac, formed a nonprofit to help other survivors. 

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Posted 5:17 AM 4/8/2026 by Mia Monet

BATON ROUGE - The third annual Pizza and Prayers Festival is this weekend.

The event will offer free food, gifts, bouncy houses and performances from local recording artists. It will be located at the Evangeline Street Park from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

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Posted 7:28 AM 4/6/2026 by April Davis

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Posted 6:55 AM 4/3/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — A new exhibit centered around an artist's family's journey from Vietnam to Louisiana is coming to the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge's Shell Gallery.

"Shell Gallery Presents: A Refugee’s Origin by K.T.Ho" will present 29 works spanning painting, installation (More)

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Posted 9:04 AM 4/2/2026 by Mia Monet

BATON ROUGE - According to the Department of Labor Statistics, the price of candy has gone up 12% in the last five years.

Even though prices are going up, consumers are still expected to hit the stores and buy easter candy this year. The National Retail Federation predicts people will (More)

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Posted 6:23 AM 4/1/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — For the first time in over 50 years, humans will be heading to the Moon.

A crew of four astronauts will lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft during a window of 5:24 p.m. to 7:24 p.m.

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Posted 5:48 AM 3/31/2026 by WBRZ Staff

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Regional Eye Bank has been serving the Capital area for 50 years. 

WBRZ's John Pastorek took a look back at the beginnings of the eye bank and discussed how it continues its mission of restoring sight on this week's edition of Sunday (More)