Almost every voting member of the union that represents people who work behind the scenes in film and television in Louisiana has joined their colleagues across the country in authorizing a nationwide strike, a representative of the local chapter says. 

The board of directors for the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana has selected Steven Procopio, currently PAR’s policy director, to be the group's next president. 

West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard says he’s willing to explore any viable option to reopen and preserve the Bluffs at Thompson Creek golf course, but his parish doesn’t have the resources to take it over and run it. 

The union members who work behind the scenes in film and television will vote this weekend on whether to authorize an unprecedented strike that could shut down most of the industry nationwide. 

The recent increase in the price of oil could lead to increases in production and jobs, but the change isn’t showing up in the data yet, the acting president for a state industry group says. 

The Baton Rouge metro area’s unemployment rate fell in August, going from 5.8% in July to 5%, slightly lower than the national average of 5.3%, according to the latest, not seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The median cost of renting an apartment in Baton Rouge went up 1% from August to September and was up 9.7% year-over-year, according to estimates Apartment List made public today.

Local entrepreneurs have launched a cryptocurrency and are building a platform they say will allow investors to profit by picking up-and-coming athletes.

A recent survey of mental health providers found dissatisfaction with several of the organizations the state uses to manage Medicaid services.

The fund Louisiana uses to pay benefits to unemployed workers falls short of federal standards for solvency, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation.