Business

From home services to arts and entertainment, every category of business grew during the first half of 2023, according to the latest breakdown from Yelp. 

The Historic Spanish Town Civic Association has taken a firm stance against a hard liquor license for Belli, the former Capitol Grocery.

The Capital Area Transit System board has tapped Theo Richards, the system’s business development director, to be interim CEO, and has hired a search firm to find a permanent leader. 

The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said this morning, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths.

The nation's employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in a sign of a still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed.

Black Americans make up about 12.6% of the workforce. But they comprise more than one-third of certain postal, transit, health care and security jobs, Pew Research Center reports in a Labor Day study.

The Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, where a large chemical fire forced evacuations last week, has had more than a dozen emergency incidents within the past five years, state records indicate.

The record-breaking heat of the past several weeks has dried up large portions of the LSU Lakes, causing problems for the ongoing University Lakes...

Baton Rouge and the rest of the Capital Region will receive $210 million in additional federal funding for transportation and infrastructure projects. 

As many fields trend toward remote work, young workers find more value in face-to-face interactions at internships and beginner jobs, Fast Company reports.

A new legislative task force is looking at how to help Louisiana’s municipalities survive.

Companies using generative AI to produce everything from ad slogans to press releases are divided about whether or not they should alert customers of...

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as companies held on to employees in an economy that has largely withstood rapidly rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve intended to cool hiring and spending.  

The Capital Region dominates the 2023 LSU Roaring 20 list, representing half of the top 20 revenue producers. LSU released this week its annual list...

The Baton Rouge metro area is expected to add another 3,000 jobs in the third quarter of this year, according to the latest economic forecast from UL Lafayette’s B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration. 

The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would make some 3.6 million additional U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay. 

DNA Workshop and Cox Communications are winners of this year’s Diversity Star awards from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. The awards were announced today during BRAC’s second annual Economic Inclusion Symposium.    

Baton Rouge-based home repair company Guarantee Restoration Services announced today that it is opening an office in Mobile, Alabama, its sixth location overall and first in that state.

Scientists at the LSU AgCenter have secured a patent for poison gummies that could finally reduce an exploding feral hog population causing as much as $100 million in annual agriculture losses and threatening the integrity of Louisiana's levee system, USA Today Network reports. 

Even though Louisiana escaped the destructive wrath from Hurricane Idalia, the storm could still impact the state when it comes to insurance premiums.