Stephanie Riegel is the editor of Business Report.

Tommy Spinosa files plans for multifamily complex in Spanish Town

Developer Tommy Spinosa is moving forward with plans for a 30-unit multifamily complex in Spanish Town at Capitol Drive and North Sixth Street.

LSU to keep single leader structure as committee begins president search

LSU’s existing leadership structure will remain in place, as a committee tasked with finding...

Why BRAC’s FuturePAC isn’t endorsing in the mayor’s race

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s political action committee, FuturePAC, released its endorsements this week...

Arkel International expands footprint with acquisition of DC-area engineering firm

Baton Rouge-based Arkel International, an industrial and infrastructure services company, has acquired AED Stratecon,...

Louisiana Lagniappe owner suspicious of jobless claims he’s being asked to verify 

Like many employers throughout the pandemic, Louisiana Lagniappe owner Kevin Ortego has received “base claim” notices from the Louisiana Workforce Commission—form letters asking him to verify that a claimant seeking unemployment compensation previously worked for him. But unlike employers who know, or at least, recognize the names of the former employees they’re being asked to verify, Ortego has received what he estimates to be between 50 and 100 notices about people he’s never heard of, much less employed at his restaurant.

Climate expert: South Louisiana faces particularly grim future

U.S. coastal communities could begin to experience 100-year floods on an annual basis by...

Downtown parking plan still in the works after five years, two administrations

Nearly five years after the city-parish began looking at ways to update and improve the parking system in downtown Baton Rouge, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration is poised to award two contracts for different components of the system, signaling the end of the process is near.

Dueling GOP endorsements points to split in Baton Rouge mayor’s race

While Mayor Sharon Weston Broome has picked up endorsements from most of the parish’s...

Pennington receives more state funds to help cope with pandemic losses

For the second time this year, state lawmakers have had to shell out money...

Kennedy, Cassidy file brief with Supreme Court in Stanford Group case

U.S. Sens. John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, who have spent years trying to help Louisiana victims of the Stanford Group Ponzi scheme recoup some of the money they lost more than a decade ago, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in the case.