The return of screwworm is testing US biosecurity and the cattle economy

New World screwworm has spread to southern Texas for the first time in about...

Holiday weekend brings fireworks, festivities and family fun across Baton Rouge

The Baton Rouge area is hosting a wide range of free Independence Day and...

Roundup: Holiday gasoline deals / Appliance requirements / US factory orders

Pump rewards: Amazon and J.C. Penney are offering promotions to help shoppers offset fuel...

Refining margins remain elevated as demand continues to outpace supply

U.S. refiners are seeing some of their strongest profit margins in years as global...

US power grid braces for a high-stakes summer of heat and supply strain

The U.S. power grid is entering summer with more total generating capacity than in...

Roundup: LNG tax windfall / High beef prices / Microsoft’s AI push

$4B in property taxes: Cameron Parish is expected to collect more than $4 billion...

US hiring slows in what economists are calling a ‘low-momentum’ labor market

The U.S. economy added 57,000 jobs in June, significantly below the 115,000 jobs economists...

Micron will donate $250M to Trump’s investment initiative for children

Micron Technology has agreed to invest $250 million in a federal children’s investment initiative...

Roundup: US auto sales / Jones Act / LSU New Orleans ceremony

Mixed results: U.S. auto sales in the second quarter were mostly stable overall, but...

Meta considers cashing in on surplus AI computing capacity

Meta is considering building a cloud-computing business that would sell unused AI computing capacity...