With voters heading to the polls Tuesday, supporters of the various candidates in the Baton Rouge mayor’s race have been launching third-party attack ads in hopes of influencing whether the contest is decided in a primary victory for incumbent Mayor Sharon Weston Broome or in a December runoff.

While public health experts have repeatedly said that a robust contact tracing program is key to curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Louisiana Department of Health’s efforts to get in touch with COVID-19-positive patients and persuade them to identify and provide the names and phone numbers for their contacts has been spotty at best, though it is improving.

Dallas-based Rosewood Private Investments has acquired a majority stake in General Informatics, the local...

Developer Pete Clements is selling the 24-acre downtown riverfront property just north of Hollywood...

A group of business leaders is urging the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board...

A national firearms retailer is poised to move into the Baton Rouge market with a location planned for the Greens at Millerville, Windy Gladney’s mixed-use development at Millerville Road and Interstate 12.

It is not unusual for mayors or governors to promote new public works projects...

Local developer Prescott Bailey has left Lafayette-based Southern Lifestyle Development and formed two new ventures—Novus Reb Engineering, a civil engineering group that focuses on infrastructure and site design for real estate projects, and Onyx Ventures, which will do site selection and development feasibility analysis.

Metairie-based Bernhard, an engineering and contracting firm owned by Jim Bernhard’s private equity firm, Bernhard Capital Partners, has inked a deal with East Alabama Medical Center to upgrade and operate the two-campus medical system’s energy infrastructure for the next 30 years.

Build Baton Rouge has received a $5 million grant from the JPMorgan Chase AdvancingCities challenge to implement several key projects in the 2019 Plank Road Master Plan, including the development of a grocery-anchored, mixed-use development on the new bus rapid transit line, and the renovation of a 3,500-square-foot historic building into a food incubator that will provide on-the-job training.