Business

Businesses spent nearly $21 billion in capital investments last year, marking five consecutive years of growth and two straight years with more than $20...

Capitol Grocery, an institution of Baton Rouge’s Spanish Town neighborhood that first opened in 1914 and has frequently changed hands in recent years, is closed and might not reopen anytime soon. 

Brasas Peru, a Peruvian restaurant, is opening this spring in the Beau De Chene Shopping Center on Perkins Road.

Does the Federal Reserve have it wrong?

The manager of Bengal Tap Room in downtown Baton Rouge is leading the launch of a Third Street bar. 

Nearly three years since the pandemic flipped the labor market upside down, restaurants, bars, hotels and casinos remain short-staffed, The Washington Post reports, with...

Crawfish prices have dropped $1.50 per pound over the past two weeks to match the cost at the same time last year, according to...

America’s employers added a sizzling 517,000 jobs in January, a surprisingly strong gain in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive drive to slow growth and tame inflation with higher interest rates.

LSU’s Flores MBA Program is among the nation’s best, according to The Princeton Review. 

The Capital Region in the fourth quarter of last year continued to lead the nation’s large metro areas in the proportion of mortgages that were seriously underwater, new data shows. 

Allyson Hicks Design Consulting is opening next week in the Highland Road location previously occupied by Lamps & Lighting, which closed in the fall.

Girl Scouts Louisiana East, which governs troops across the region, is building a new headquarters in Gonzales, near Cabela’s.  Part of a national Girl Scouts...

Managers and executives are starting to feel like they have more authority as the pendulum of who has more leverage swings back toward employers, despite a still-tight labor market, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Baton Rouge Carbon Reduction Alliance have partnered with a bioeconomy media company to create an online community...

LSU's athletic budget rebounded in a big way during the 2021-2022 academic year, Sportico reports.

Louisiana's Republican U.S. House members are among those demanding America's federal workers return to the office in a bill that cleared the House late...

U.S. applications for jobless aid fell again last week to their lowest level since April, further evidence that the job market has withstood aggressive...

Dark 30, a new bar focused on wine and craft cocktails, is planned for Third Street in downtown Baton Rouge and might be open by early March.

More than $21 billion in new and expanded industrial projects focused on decarbonization have been announced for Louisiana since 2020, state officials say. 

Bernhard Capital Partners announced that its portfolio company Atlas Technical Consultants Inc. has agreed to be acquired by private investment firm GI Partners in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.05 billion.