Colleges and universities across Louisiana are dealing with the harsh financial realities of a pandemic while also charting a path into an uncertain future.

With a projected sharp decrease in the hotel occupancy tax that supports its budget, Visit Baton Rouge is preparing to seek a $2 million line of credit from a private lender in the event that it runs into financial trouble later this year or next.

Nearly two months after hackers waged an aggressive attack on the Baton Rouge Clinic, shutting down systems for weeks, cybersecurity experts have determined that 85 patients could have had some of their information compromised.

Businessman Richard Lipsey says aggressive panhandling near the intersection of Siegen Lane and Rieger...

The owners of BBQGuys, one of Baton Rouge’s homegrown success stories and an early leader nationwide in online retail, have sold the company they founded in 1998 to a group led by one of their own top executives.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is trying to spread the word throughout south Louisiana...

The state will begin the process this week of relocating nearly 175 homeless in East Baton Rouge Parish from three local hotels—where they have been living since early in the pandemic crisis—to what is hoped will be more permanent housing sites.

A 61-year-old panhandler was “unarmed and out of arm’s reach” of 24-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed him Saturday evening in the parking lot outside Trader Joe’s on Perkins Road.

Work crews from Baton Rouge-based Turner Industries are in the Lake Charles area today,...

Though it’s too early to determine the extent of the damage Hurricane Laura wreaked on the southwest Louisiana communities where it made landfall, the state’s petrochemical industry is well-prepared to weather massive storms and likely will emerge relatively unscathed, says David Dismukes, executive director at LSU Center for Energy Studies.