Business

Georgia-based JPB Holdings is planning a 49-unit affordable apartment development on 2 acres at the former Borden Dairy site on Florida Boulevard.  Phil Britton, vice...

Louisiana residents will have a chance to review 10 proposed locations for a new bridge over the Mississippi River in the Baton Rouge area.

More than 211 million sports bets were placed on mobile betting apps in Louisiana during February, a month that provided numerous opportunities for wagers including NBA basketball, the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl.

Most of the millions of Americans who quit jobs during the Great Resignation regret the move, don't like their new position enough to stay or are searching for a new gig, according to a Harris Poll survey conducted March 18-20.

More big changes are coming to the Chase South Tower as a new business plans to move into the vacant office space on lower floors.

For the city and parish combined, recurring sales and use tax collections totaled $18.7 million in January, a 17.5% increase over the same month in 2021.  

You’re never too young to start a business. Take it from Condoleezza Semien, a 16-year-old entrepreneur who started her own business, Beluga Bliss, when she was in the eighth grade.

The Capital Area Road and Bridge District at a meeting today is expected to narrow from 20 the number of locations still in play for a new Mississippi River bridge, the director of an industry-backed transportation group says. 

Nearly every hiring manager has a blind spot that, if left unidentified, can lead to them missing out on high-quality employees or hiring people that are not a good fit with their company’s goals. 

Larger employers are revamping the way they conduct background checks on potential employees as a way to fight the tight labor market, Axios reports. 

Two years after the pandemic began and despite inflation and the war in Ukraine driving prices up, Louisiana’s employment numbers are at their highest since March 2020, with Baton Rouge adding the second most jobs of any Louisiana metro from January to February.

To understand the state of American business, look no further than disc golf, a niche sport that has recently blossomed into a real business...

In the heart of downtown Baton Rouge, the new Blues Café will combine jazz and blues music, Southern cuisine and specialty brunch cocktails when it opens later this spring.

Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have another challenge to add to their plate: taxes.

Baton Rouge-based PSC Group has acquired DeQuincy-based Thermoplastics Services Inc., a plastics custom compounding and pelletizing business. 

Former president and CEO of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Scott Wester is in the running to become president and CEO of South Broward Hospital just north of Miami, according to The Chattanoogan. 

Fidelis New Energy LLC announced the addition of three industry veterans to the team that will oversee Fidelis' Grön Fuels plant, a complex planned for the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Fidelis announced today.

Enhanced federal subsidies have led consumers that otherwise would have gotten health insurance through their employer to seek policies on the individual market instead, says Michael Bertaut, a health care economist with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. 

Louisiana education leaders’ message to state lawmakers was clear: The teacher shortage in K-12 schools has reached emergency levels, Louisiana Illuminator reports. 

Louisiana lost more than 27,000 residents from July 1, 2020 to July 1 of last year, or about 0.6% of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.