Get ready to celebrate! Community members are invited to help celebrate BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo turning 55 years old.

and BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is marking the occasion with a creative new installation. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, the zoo unveiled a four-foot bowling pin and ball inside its giraffe exhibit to ...

also known as spectacled bears, are the only bears native to South America. In the wild, they build nests and platforms in trees, similar to the structure constructed in the zoo’s exhibit.

A hit with families, the Baton Rouge Zoo is home to a variety of animals both big and small. Everything from alligators and rhinoceroses to parrots and hissing cockroaches call this zoo home.

The Saint Louis Zoo announced Wednesday that they have exchanged one of their long-time resident polar bears for young polar bear twins from Toledo. Twelve-year-old polar bear Kali was moved this ...

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

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 ...

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 ...

Larry Selders came out on top in a special election for a Baton Rouge-area state Senate seat on Saturday, easily outdistancing his two opponents. In the 14th Senatorial District race, Selders won ...