The Capital Area Road and Bridge District is meeting today with plans to hear from consultants about how a potential new Mississippi River

Commercial real estate sales activity continued to increase through August in East Baton Rouge Parish despite higher interest rates, a new report shows. 

Fix-and-flip investors have been relatively busy in the Baton Rouge area compared to last year, as home flipping increased more than 155%

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in the coming year will work to expand its reach into areas that don’t currently have access to high-quality cancer care,

Though the industrial sector will continue powering the Capital Region economy, there are promising opportunities in the health care and research technology markets.

Longtime Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center CEO Todd Stevens will step down to be replaced by the current COO in January, officials announced today. 

Plant managers around the region expect production, capital spending and employment to remain mostly steady over the next six months.

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome is asking the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council to appropriate $2.3 million for upgrades to the Raising Cane’s River Center. 

The Sierra Club is urging the federal government to deny an air permit for Magnolia Power’s proposed plant in Iberville Parish. 

Developer Larry Walsh says he’s about 80% sure he will close on the long-vacant shell of a building on Lafayette Street across from the Hilton Capitol Center that he recently put under contract for about $1 million.