Cancer care and treatment will continue to be Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center’s sole focus as it strives to stand out in an increasingly crowded marketplace, CEO Todd Stevens told the Baton Rouge Press Club today. 

Business groups plan to keep pushing for changes that would simplify how Louisiana collects sales taxes, after voters rejected a constitutional amendment calling for a more streamlined system. 

Despite the departure of Sasha Thackaberry, university officials say the plan remains to keep LSU logged in to online education.

Homes for sale sat on the market for an average of only one week before going under contract from July 2020 through June 2021, a record low, according to newly released results of a National Association of Realtors survey.

Natural gas prices are higher than Louisiana’s petrochemical industry would prefer but it’s not a serious problem yet, Louisiana Chemical Association President and CEO Greg Bowser says.

Putting a price on carbon is a useful policy tool for spurring decarbonization and addressing climate change, Dow Chairman and CEO Jim Fitterling said today at the annual conference of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana.

Rural Sourcing, a software development firm based in Atlanta, plans to open a development center in downtown Baton Rouge, officials announced today. 

The Metro Council today will take up Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s plan for spending nearly $12.6 million in federal grant money. 

Some of the practices the legal profession adopted to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 may continue to be common after the pandemic is over, attorneys say.

Commercial users and those from outside of East Baton Rouge Parish would pay more to use the parish’s North Landfill under a proposal on Wednesday’s Metro Council agenda.