A power outage on Baton Rouge Metro Airport property that began Friday night and continued into Saturday, shut down fuel pumps at the airport and forced four commercial flights to make unplanned stops at other airports to refuel.

Efforts to draft a new ordinance governing short-term rentals in Baton Rouge are moving forward but at something of a snail’s pace.

The developers of Pelican Lakes are seeking approval to add 115 new, single-family lots to their Burbank Drive development, which, if approved by the Planning Commission, would increase the total number of lots to 717.

According to a breakdown by ZIP code, the majority of National Flood Insurance Program policyholders in East Baton Rouge Parish, more than 50%, will see their rates decrease, probably by just a few dollars per month.

Existing policies under the National Flood Insurance Program will not see their rates change until April, but according to FEMA, an estimated 77% of all policyholders will see their rates increase.

The streetlights have been a problem for months that continues to get worse, yet City Hall and Entergy are at something of an impasse over how to fix them. Why? It’s complicated.

Despite the challenges LSU has weathered over the past 18 months—a pandemic, a Title IX scandal, a federal investigation into alleged NCAA violations, and a leadership change—its Fierce for the Future campaign is doing well, all things considered.

Sasha Thackaberry, LSU’s vice president of online learning and continuing education, has left the school after a little more than three years for a top administrative post at National University, a San Diego-based institution that specializes in online learning.

Less than one year after its launch, Baton Rouge-based tech startup I Hate Receipts has raised half of the $1.5 million it is targeting in its seed round of funding, and has signed a deal with online retail platform Shopify, which will expose potentially millions of users to the company’s app.

Baton Rouge-based IT firm Vinformatix is positioning itself for growth in the government contracting sector through a new, joint venture with The Parnin Group, an Alexandria, Virginia, consulting firm that specializes in working with governmental agencies.