Plans to build Shoot Point Blank, a firearms retail store and shooting range with locations in several states, are going forward after a Kentucky-based company bought property at the Greens at Millerville for $800,000.Â
Local restaurants have been paying higher prices for meat all summer, and it doesn’t appear prices will fall any time soon. As a result, many restaurants are having to increase menu prices and risk the loss of some customers.Â
This Saturday marks the start of what is normally a busy time for Baton Rouge-area hotels—LSU home football games. But with some hotels completely booked with evacuees and emergency personnel responding to Hurricane Ida, where will fans stay?
Already facing supply and labor shortages caused by COVID-19, new restaurants trying to open in Baton Rouge are now dealing with added frustrations in the wake of Hurricane Ida.Â
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a proclamation on Monday ensuring emergency personnel like first responders, health care employees and utility workers have hotel rooms to stay in while assisting affected Louisiana residents and repairing infrastructure.Â
President Biden granted a request by Gov. John Bel Edwards to make disaster unemployment insurance available to businesses and residents in 25 Louisiana parishes, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced Friday.