With fall approaching, it should be time to kick off the Capital Area United...

Employers whose health insurance plans are up for renewal in the fourth quarter might...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has once again postponed oral arguments that had been scheduled for late July in the class-action suit filed locally on behalf of some 900 mostly Baton Rouge-based victims of the Stanford Group. No date has yet been set for the hearing, which was originally scheduled for May then moved because of the pandemic. But it’s the latest setback in a nearly decade-long case that at times has seemed promising for the victims and at other times hopeless.  

Construction crews have begun renovating the former church property at 250 S. Foster Drive,...

Baton Rouge-based Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar is bucking state and national trends, opening new restaurants across the Southeast at a pace that is surprisingly rapid. 

Top decision makers in the Southeastern Conference are reportedly holding an impromptu meeting this...

Despite the economic hardships created by the pandemic, bankruptcy filings so far this year,...

Telemedicine isn’t new but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed virtual visits over the edge, forever changing the health care delivery system.

While the coronavirus pandemic has done damage to many sectors of the economy, it hasn’t had a negative effect on residential real estate, at least not yet. On the contrary, home sale activity in East Baton Rouge Parish through July is slightly higher than it was for the same period in 2019 or 2018, according to an analysis of MLS data compiled by the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors and provided by local real estate agents.

In a meeting this morning of the Louisiana Economic Recovery Task Force, Dr. Stephen Barnes, an economist at UL-Lafayette and a member of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference, said data suggests the economic downturn will last longer and be harder to recover from than originally thought. “While we had initially hoped this would be a much shorter event, as time passes more and more permanent damage is being done,” Barnes said. “That is going to give you a recovery path that might look more and more like the Great Recession did than the recovery after an event like Katrina.”