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Andy’s Frozen Custard filed an $850,000 permit on Tuesday for construction of a second Baton Rouge location, this one on Highland Road, near the intersection with Old Perkins Road East.

Dr. David Carmouche is leaving his executive post at Ochsner after six years of helping grow the health system’s risk- and value-based care delivery models, to lead Walmart’s national expansion into retail health care.

The National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, or CAE-CO, recently selected LSU as the sole university allowed to apply for CAE-CO designation this year, LSU announced Monday.

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The ending of the Mary Bird Perkins partnership with Our Lady of the Lake is something few saw coming, or thought would ever happen, but now that it has the Baton Rouge health care market will never be the same.

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has finalized its affiliation agreement with the Nashville-based network of independent oncology practices, OneOncology, clearing the way for the new partnership to take effect Jan. 1 and officially ending MBPCC’s nearly decadelong affiliation with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.

Developer Cornelius Quarels says he hopes to open The Main Lobby, a new lounge in the former Hound Dogs location downtown, before the end of the year.

Build Baton Rouge CEO Chris Tyson says he expects construction to begin during the first quarter of next year on a $10 million mixed-use development on Plank Road in north Baton Rouge. 

Fender Musical Instruments Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Baton Rouge-based PreSonus Audio Electronics, an audio recording software and hardware manufacturer founded in 1995.  

The coming federal rule that will require private companies in the U.S. to mandate vaccinations or regular testing among their workers has been finalized by the White House, in advance of its likely public release this week, The Washington Post reports. 

The developers of the mixed-use Burbank University development on Burbank and West Lee drives near the LSU campus have filed plans to develop a football training facility on a portion of their massive property.

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry today announced the companies and individuals it has selected as winners of its 2021 Free Enterprise Awards. 

Cox Sports Television was shut down this weekend after 19 years on the air. 

The office is just a distant memory for some, a place where work was conducted in 2019 before the workforce headed home due to the pandemic. 

Fred’s Bar and Grill is planning a massive expansion: a  30,000-square-foot, three-level beer garden in the parking lot of the iconic Tigerland watering hole, owner Mark Fraoli confirms.

Corporations that sell goods and services between their own subsidiaries may benefit from a new state program to resolve taxation disputes. 

For the city and parish combined, recurring city-parish sales and use tax collections totaled $17.84 million in August, a 9.9% increase over the same month last year.

L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge today announced plans to open its sports betting facility Monday after receiving its license from the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. 

Transportation executives trying to manage the supply chain gridlock that’s frustrating U.S. businesses say the ability to clear the bottlenecks rests largely on a simple piece of steel and wheels that has long been an afterthought in global shipping, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

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