Business

New Orleans-based SafePush took home the $100,000 investment prize at the High Stakes Pitch Competition that closed out Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week on Thursday...

A proposed electric vehicle battery component refinery is one step closer to becoming a reality in Ascension Parish. Element 25 Ltd., an Australian mining company,...

February East Baton Rouge Parish General 2% Sales and Use Tax by Holly Duchmann

A longtime health insurance executive is taking over the top spot at Baton Rouge-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. The Louisiana insurer’s board...

Prominent Baton Rouge injury attorney Gordon McKernan is in the process of developing a new podcast studio at his office on Hilton Avenue. The office,...

The Louisiana Motor Transport Association Foundation purchased two buildings in downtown Baton Rouge for $1.2 million in February with plans to move its offices...

Nexus Louisiana’s 13th annual Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week kicks off Tuesday with a full day of sessions and a pitch competition. BREW, slated to run...

Representatives for Together Baton Rouge, a local network of civic organizations and religious congregations, will host a press conference on Monday morning to voice...

The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge has named Jonathan Grimes as its president and CEO effective immediately, the organization announced today. Grimes has been...

While the Baton Rouge residential real estate market experienced record growth from 2019 to 2021, that growth has slowed significantly in 2022 and 2023. That’s...

The Baton Rouge industrial real estate market continues to find itself in a state of “gridlock and stagnation” even as the national market appears...

IN THREE: WORK/LIFE BALANCE When attorney Lana Crump and her husband were raising three children in a household with two working parents, she discovered these...

While in her senior year at LSU, one of Alicia Vidrine’s professors posed a simple question to her during an encounter at the student...

Like a great symphony, Amanda Martin’s career has had a lot of twists and turns but plenty of high notes—all leading to a crescendo,...

Cheri Johnson didn’t seek to be a hospital executive. It sought her. Before becoming the executive vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer...

When Tessa Holloway was approached in 2006 to purchase a child care center in Port Allen, she was a manager at Blockbuster with no...

Woman’s Hospital. The Port of New Orleans. Ochsner Health. LCMC Health. The University Medical Center in New Orleans. The expansions of I-10 in Baton...

While growing up in Metairie, Melissa Dotson thought she was destined for a career in medicine. Her mother even sent her to Latin camp...

One of Louisiana’s most challenging moments led to a formative period in Rachel DiResto’s career. It was the mid-2000s, and DiResto was working as vice...

Is AI right for a law firm? It’s one of the many critical decisions that Lana Crump has tackled in her role as a partner...