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Southeast Louisiana farmers, who were already in the middle of their traditional slow season, are now dealing with fallen trees, flooded fields and flattened crops as a result of Hurricane Ida. Some Baton Rouge-area growers may not be back in business until mid or late October.

With rental cars still in short supply, enterprising car owners are renting their vehicles out to travelers through Turo, an online carsharing marketplace, Axios reports. It could cause a shift in the rental car industry similar to what was seen when Airbnb took off. 

The fund Louisiana uses to pay benefits to unemployed workers falls short of federal standards for solvency, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation.

LSU construction management professors Yimin Zhu and Amirhosein Jafari are researching how new technology can be leveraged to create next-generation learning environments for architecture, engineering and construction engineering.

Lawmakers grilled Louisiana Department of Health officials about the botched nursing home evacuation during Hurricane Ida in which at least seven residents died while...

The morning of the Tigers’ meeting with Mississippi State a year ago, LSU released a statement saying star cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. would miss the game after becoming “acutely ill” overnight. His absence was glaring as the Bulldogs threw for an SEC record 623 yards in a 44-34 win against the Tigers.

While many employers are rethinking their need for office space in the COVID era, downsizing offices or closing them altogether, CSRS is expanding.

The spread of the delta variant has kept many of America’s office employees working from home and fueled a rise in surveillance technologies by employers.

In the latest shake-up to rock the rapidly changing local health care market, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and one of the largest oncology practices in Baton Rouge—Louisiana Hematology and Oncology Associates—have signed a letter of intent with Baton Rouge General’s Pennington Cancer Center to expand services to BRG’s Bluebonnet campus.

The Natural Resources Defense Council's toilet paper scorecard uses environmental yardsticks to judge 44 top brands of bathroom tissue.

If the pandemic, Hurricane Ida and the roof of the Superdome catching fire didn’t provide enough drama for you in September, you can always find further political intrigue in the courts, which have hosted major developments in class-action lawsuits this month.   

Original concepts and refreshed locations will roll out over the next few weeks and months, heralding the continuing evolution of the Capital City’s dining scene.

The LSU Food Incubator, recently rebranded as FOODii, is offering its bottling facility to statewide companies in order to bring more manufacturing back to Louisiana.

Partisan budget disagreements on Capitol Hill will likely impact the implementation of new flood insurance rates scheduled to take effect Oct. 1, according to U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge.

Louisiana’s decision to opt out of enhanced federal unemployment benefits did not lead to significant employment growth, the Legislature’s top economist says. 

The Louisiana agriculture industry has suffered at least $584 million in damage after Hurricane Ida walloped the southeastern portion of the state

The most simple way to overcome this misconception is to inject a human-first approach to business by working to better understand what customers need.

Gov. John Bel Edwards said today that he is confident Congress will ultimately pass a supplemental disaster aid package to benefit Louisiana and other states recovering from hurricanes, fires and freezes during the past two years, but acknowledged partisan politics could delay delivery, USA Today Network reports. 

Local self-storage companies saw an increase in customers early this summer, partially due to flooding in May but also as the result of a rise in home sales.

Organizers of the St. George incorporation effort say they may file de-annexation requests on behalf of property owners who live within the city limits and want out.