Louisiana consumers pay the highest average combined state and local sales taxes in the nation, according to the latest report by Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation. 

Baton Rouge aerospace and defense contractor Bascom Hunter continues its expansion with the acquisition of Texas-based Seamech, the local company announced today. 

You can’t control what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond, so choose carefully and bring a positive mindset, U.S. Navy SEAL Teams veteran Scott Daly says. 

The Capital Region’s petrochemical industry likely will continue to benefit from low domestic natural gas prices over the next two years, economist Loren Scott told Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance members today. 

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently ruled that a man who drove someone else’s car as a favor to get a tire fixed wasn’t covered when he got in an accident. 

Baton Rouge General Medical Center is planning to establish “a couple” more facilities along the lines of its Ascension Neighborhood Hospital over the next few years, CEO Edgardo Tenreiro says. 

A new law directing health insurance companies, agents and brokers to disclose their commissions has been in effect for more than a month, but the rules about how to comply still are not available. 

Louisiana could get as much as $113 million from the federal government to support small business capital and technical assistance programs. 

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not take into account the lease sale’s effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating federal law, The Associated Press reports.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it will conduct unannounced inspections of Louisiana industrial facilities and deploy mobile pollution monitoring equipment in the state isn’t necessarily a big deal because most plants already comply with the regulations, says Connie Fabré, president and CEO of the Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance.