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The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry will consider today an Industrial Tax Exemption Program application for a $121 million “green” ammonia plant in Donaldsonville. 

Almost half of women in the workforce say the pandemic has negatively impacted their career path and nearly 20% of women say they’ve been pushed out of the labor force altogether, according to a MetLife survey of 2,000 U.S. workers conducted last month. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards said today he’s largely ending Louisiana’s nearly 3-month-old indoor mask mandate because the state has emerged from its latest coronavirus spike and is seeing lower rates of COVID-19 infection.

Louisiana will receive $595 million in federal disaster block grant aid to help with housing restoration and other recovery needs from last year's back-to-back blows of Hurricanes Laura and Delta, the state's two U.S. senators announced today.

When it comes to entrepreneurship, Louisiana ranks 34th, according to a report released today by Heartland Forward.

Georgia-based Mountain Express Oil Co. acquired a majority stake in New Orleans-based Brothers Food Mart and purchased a majority of the Brothers convenience stores, five of which are in the Baton Rouge area, in a deal that closed Friday.

Billions of dollars' worth of goods are stuck in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where 40% of the country’s shipping containers...

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration has been making the rounds with Metro Council members and trying to answer their questions in advance of Wednesday’s council meeting, at which the mayor will present her spending plan for some $73 million in federal money.

If you’re looking to buy your Thanksgiving turkey or favorite holiday side this season, you might want to act fast.

LSU’s fall 2020 freshman class was 9% larger than the previous year’s, while the number of new enrollees at Baton Rouge Community College and Gonzales-based River Parishes Community College fell 23% and 36%, respectively, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The future of the Old Governor’s Mansion is up in the air at the moment.

Congressional Democrats have agreed to raise their proposed tax reporting threshold for bank account inflows and outflows from $600 to $10,000 a year.

Preliminary Louisiana employment data for September shows a loss of nearly 30,000 seasonally adjusted non-farm jobs from August, and though this is partly due to the impacts of Hurricane Ida, the storm doesn't account for the overall shift in employment, The News Star reports.

Some interruptions at work can be distracting and annoying, especially if your work requires heavy focus, but some can be helpful and increase productivity.

Elementary school-age children walk in quiet formation down cheerful hallways trimmed in bright Kelly green. Some are headed to French, Spanish or Mandarin classes, while others are making a beeline for biology, English language arts or even Latin. 

Like many other industries right now, local restaurant suppliers are reeling from equipment shortages and increased prices. And, with the holiday season approaching, some see the problems getting worse before they get better.

Marucci Sports has purchased Lizard Skins, a designer and seller of branded grip products, protective equipment, bags and apparel for use in baseball, cycling, hockey, esports and lacrosse, the companies announced today.

U.S. companies are preparing to keep shelling out higher wages to employees into the new year, Axios reports.  According to a survey from the National...

In the two years since L.H. Hayward & Co. acquired Dagostino Pasta Company from its Baton Rouge owners, the New Orleans-based Hayward has shifted the focus of the company to wholesale distribution in an effort to broaden its reach to restaurants, grocery stores and e-commerce customers.

While solar energy projects are ramping up in Louisiana, attracting panel manufacturers is what will create large-scale jobs.