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City Group Hospitality is opening its latest concept next week in Long Farm Village. Proverbial Wine Bistro is about thoughtful pairings of food with not just wine, but craft beer and detailed cocktails as well, says City Group Hospitality managing partner Stephen Hightower.

E&D Properties, a small Baton Rouge-based developer, is expanding Warehouse Office Plaza, an office and warehouse development on Mammoth Avenue. E&D owner Eric Jefferson is...

Turner Industries has created a new subsidiary, Turner Industries Energy Services, that will focus on the growing renewable energy sector.

After two high-profile business leaders this week publicly blasted Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center as “greedy” and “morally bankrupt” amid the hospital’s ongoing feud with the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, officials at OLOL and its parent organization, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, have been holed up in meetings trying to determine next steps, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Annual revenue for LSU’s main online education program has almost tripled over the past three years, the departed official who led that division says. 

One day after the chairman of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation resigned from the hospital fundraising board amid the escalating feud between OLOL and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, blasting hospital leadership as “morally bankrupt,” prominent businessman and OLOL donor Richard Lipsey is also taking aim at the institution.

The Capital Region’s largest law firm has achieved national recognition for ensuring a diverse group of candidates is considered for leadership positions. 

Federal authorities in New York today charged 18 former NBA players, including Baton Rouge native, U-High graduate and former LSU star Glen “Big Baby”...

Love them or loathe them, the flavors we associate with pumpkin pie are a centerpiece of fall coffeehouse menus, where options now extend well beyond the PSL.

The Southern University Board of Supervisors today announced it has formed a search committee to recruit a successor for President-Chancellor Ray L. Belton, who plans to retire in fall 2022.  

The National Restaurant Association continues to press Congress to replenish the depleted Restaurant Revitalization Fund, something many Baton Rouge-area restaurants say they could benefit from.

Is Amazon already spurring economic development activity around the site of the former Cortana Mall?

The former Subway location near College Drive and Perkins Road has undergone a major transformation and is now the home of Myla Boutique, a clothing store for women and girls that opened last weekend. 

Tom Adamek, who has been simultaneously serving as board chair of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and also Our Lady of the Lake Foundation, resigned from the foundation board today, as tensions between OLOL and MBPCC erupted into a free-for-all.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission was awarded $5 million as part of a National Dislocated Worker Grant and is using the funds to launch programs to support jobs and recovery programs following Hurricane Ida, LWC announced today.

Baton Rouge-based Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is sending about half of its corporate staff to work in its restaurants amid a severe shortage of hourly workers.

Louisiana Economic Development this week won two awards at the International Economic Development Council’s annual conference in Nashville, taking home a gold award for its efforts to support entrepreneurship and a silver medal for talent development and retention, according to an LED announcement. 

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry today released its 2021 Legislative Scorecard, highlighting lawmakers who supported pro-business legislation during this year’s regular session.

Premier Health Consultants CEO Steve Sellars on Tuesday announced that the company will expand its Baton Rouge headquarters, making a $1.5 million capital investment in its facilities to support the more than 85 urgent care clinics it operates. 

Monday’s announcement by Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center that it is developing a new $100 million cancer institute raises a lot of questions about the future of the cancer care market in Baton Rouge.