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Early voting for the upcoming Louisiana election begins tomorrow with local judges, constitutional amendments and a mill renewal for the Capital Area Transit System...

After nearly a yearlong negotiation, LSU has finalized a deal with two private partners to modernize and operate the energy system on the main...

Children are back to school and day cares this fall, but child care worker shortages are affecting households across the country and in Louisiana, sidelining some women’s careers. 

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and LSU Health New Orleans’ Baton Rouge campus will partner to provide “an immersive experience” for pre-medical students at LSU, officials say.

A winning mindset has spelled success for Glenn Foster Jr., a former New Orleans Saints defensive end turned entrepreneur. Just a few years off...

Most gamblers are familiar with professional football and basketball, but the Louisiana Gaming Control Board has included 31 sports that are legal to bet on in its new catalog as the state's newly-created sports wagering industry gets up and running, The News Star reports. 

Baton Rouge-based community currency Moxey is partnering with Citizens Bank and Trust

The Louisiana Budget Project this week sent direct mail urging voters to oppose Amendment 2, which would trigger major changes to the state’s tax structure—changes that business interests support. 

The board of directors of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber today announced its support for the tax millage renewal of the Capital Area Transit System, which will appear on the Nov. 13 ballot. 

As the deadline for communities to apply for funding to fix their water and sewer systems approaches, lawmakers are still struggling to untangle the application process. 

With greater scrutiny around compliance of companies that receive property tax abatements under the state’s Industrial Tax Exemption Program, the Metro Council will be asked to weigh in on whether two local companies that fell out of compliance should be allowed to continue receiving the tax break.

Cybersecurity breaches are an increasingly large threat to big and small businesses as they move more operations online, and two cybersecurity professionals shared their advice on how to protect against becoming a victim, in Business Report’s latest webcast.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused businesses around the world to question how work gets done, but even before COVID-19 struck, researchers in Iceland were already conducting trials of a shorter workweek that involved about 2,500 workers. 

Many students who borrow money to enroll in graduate school get caught in student debt, but getting an MBA seems to pay off for most graduates.

Since complaints started mounting earlier this month about the number of burned out lights along Interstate 10 through the heart of Baton Rouge, roughly 30 of the 60 or so lights are back on, according to city-parish officials.

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.