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Trees will soon line slimmed-down Government Street
As the $11.7 million Government Street Road Diet project nears its end, with the state department of transportation estimating a midsummer completion date, the city-parish is beginning a beautification phase of the project that involves planting dozens of trees in the tree wells that line both sides of the newly overhauled thoroughfare.
LSU Presidential Search Committee to meet; Emmert’s name resurfaces
The LSU Presidential Search Committee will meet Wednesday afternoon to begin discussing the pool of applicants for the university’s top job.
That pool shrunk by...
Fraught relationship persists between restaurants, delivery companies
Diners got used to delivery during the pandemic, and the habit may stick around for the foreseeable future. But restaurants and delivery companies remain uneasy partners, haggling over fees and struggling to make the service profitable for each other, the Associated Press reports.
Louisiana housing agency leader faces sexual harassment claims
The leader of the state's affordable housing agency has been suspended while he's being investigated for allegations that he sexually harassed an employee, Gov....
Transportation money going to Lafayette, Lake Charles but not Baton Rouge
When Gov. John Bel Edwards and state transportation secretary Shawn Wilson announced Monday that the state is getting $216 million in transportation aid from...
Tom Galligan withdraws name from LSU’s president search
LSU interim president Tom Galligan will no longer seek to become the next president of LSU, he announced via Twitter this morning.
Galligan, who was...
Grön Fuels complex moves step closer as two firms come on board
Koch Engineered Solutions today announced that two of its companies have partnered with Fidelis Infrastructure to work on the highly anticipated Grön Fuels renewable energy complex in West Baton Rouge Parish.
What does energy’s evolution mean for Louisiana?
It’s a hotly debated subject, to be sure, but most would agree that a move toward alternative forms of power, net-zero emissions and other...
Bill would undo ethics charge on industry appointees to Capital Area Groundwater Conservation Commission
A Senate committee will take up a bill Tuesday that would allow industrial companies to nominate their employees to the Capital Area Groundwater Conservation Commission, an 18-member volunteer panel that regulates the Southern Hills Aquifer. The aquifer supplies Baton Rouge's fresh drinking water and provides area industrial plants with water for their operations.
How this Baton Rouge craftsman’s work ended up in Disneyland
Picture this: You’re in your favorite bar, sipping a cocktail out of a beautiful tiki mug.
That mug might just be one of Omar Girona’s...
Late-summer openings planned for new Bistro Byronz, Spoke and Hub
Work is under way on the former White Star Market space in the Square 46 development on Government Street that will house the new location of Bistro Byronz. But an opening date is still several months away.
Louisiana set to receive $773M in early child care funding
Louisiana is set to receive $773 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to fund early child care, but an early childhood advocate says...
How GMFS Mortgage is quietly making an impact on Baton Rouge
The parking lot was littered with people, worn and haggard, sleep deprived and most with only the clothes on their backs. A few pop-up...
ExxonMobil, other oil giants, looking to commercialize carbon capture
Oil companies have for decades made money by extracting carbon from the ground, but now they are trying to make money putting it back.
Energy...
Bluebonnet Parc listing reveals investor insight into market
The recent listing of the Bluebonnet Parc retail center, which is adjacent to the Mall of Louisiana and visible from Interstate 10, offers insight into what investors and real estate brokers think about the viability of the local market.
800 more department stores in US expected to close in next five years
Department stores, once a middle-class mainstay of convenience and indulgence, had been spiraling downward long before the pandemic turbocharged online shopping and helped tip...
Pandemic shipping delays, product scarcity could last through summer
When the COVID-19 crisis first hit, demand plummeted for Romy Taormina's flagship product, a band that travelers wear on their wrists to ease nausea....
Suiting 101 aims to help students dress for success
It’s probably safe to say that many of us watched our usual grooming habits fly out the window this past year. Why wear a...
Fed estimates fewer businesses failed during pandemic than feared
The economic toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough to measure, but new estimates from the Federal Reserve suggest it wasn’t as bad...
Roundup: Capsized vessel / Construction starts / ExxonMobil
Rescue effort: Divers searching for oil industry workers on a capsized liftboat prepared to enter the overturned vessel today, a rescue effort complicated by...
