Former president and CEO of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Scott Wester has been named CEO of Memorial Healthcare System in the Miami, Florida area, South Florida Business Journal reports. 

Capital Region apartment vacancies came down over the past year and rents shot up, reversing the pre-pandemic trend, according to data Baton Rouge-based real estate appraisers Cook, Moore, Davenport and Associates compiled. 

Together Louisiana today released a report backing Senate Bill 151, a proposed constitutional amendment that would make permanent the changes to the Industrial Tax Exemption Program enacted by Gov. John Bel Edwards in 2016. 

Lauren Temple, owner and operator of two Baton Rouge-area Pilates Plus locations, today announced she has acquired TreadBR, a fitness studio in the Southdowns Shopping Center on Perkins Road.  

Ochsner Health today announced plans for a $10 million, 16,700-square-foot expansion to its cancer care facility off Interstate 12, including a new pharmacy for patients and additional exam rooms. 

For the second time, an audit has found that Baton Rouge Community College did not have adequate controls in place for how it manages and files funding returns to the federal government for the fiscal year that ended in June 2021. 

Cleco Corporate Holdings LLC today announced a new, $900 million carbon capture project at its Brame Energy Center northwest of Alexandria. 

Baton Rouge-based Genesis 360 founder Craig Stevens has received a businessperson of the year award from the U.S. Small Business Administration. 

Construction employment in Louisiana has rebounded somewhat since the beginning of the pandemic, but the state remains below pre-pandemic levels, New Orleans City Business reports. 

For the city and parish combined, recurring sales and use tax collections totaled $18.7 million in January, a 17.5% increase over the same month in 2021.