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Louisiana set a record last month for the most state residents ever employed in June, according to federal data released today. 

No one from Louisiana has ever made a call to space. That will change Tuesday when earthbound students ring up NASA astronauts orbiting above.

It’s easy to assume that the key to pay satisfaction is a fatter paycheck, but a recent survey of 2,500 American workers found that it’s a little more complicated, The Wall Street Journal reports.  

Tucked in the corner of an O’Neal Lane shopping center, Sazon Latin Grill is bringing fresh flavors to Baton Rouge. 

The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge has begun reaching out to companies outside the Capital Region in an effort to recruit them to Baton Rouge. 

Almost two years ago, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center dissolved their alliance, stunning leaders across the Capital Region health care sector. 

Federal regulators announced Thursday the first ever Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale, opening sites off the coast of Lake Charles and Galveston, Texas, that could potentially power nearly 1.3 million homes. 

Louisiana’s combined state and local sales tax rate of 9.547% is the second highest nationally, according to the Tax Foundation’s midyear report. 

While recent legislation might eventually make it easier for Louisiana businesses to remit sales taxes, it doesn’t achieve advocates’ longtime goal of centralizing state sales tax collection. 

The organization that owns the Lincoln Theater will ask the Planning Commission at its meeting next month to rezone the property from light industrial to light commercial use. 

The dining and drinking scene continues to evolve in Baton Rouge with a number of notable openings that ought to be on your bucket list. Here’s a sampling of some of the new spots so far in 2023: 

The new LNG Center for Excellence at McNeese State University could become home to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials and Safety Administration National Center...

The Federal Reserve today launched a long-awaited service that aims to modernize the U.S. payment system by eventually allowing everyday Americans to send and...

LSU’s first College World Series win since 2009 was a home run for Louisiana sports betting, according to the chair of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.

The future of Millennial Park is in flux as the property off Florida Boulevard remains closed, with the developer tight-lipped about his future plans. 

Baton Rouge’s newest business to enter town is Sniffspot—an app best described as an “Airbnb for dogs” that allows homeowners to rent out their yards to dog owners where their pups can exercise. 

If you want a committed team at your company, you have to have a connected team, writes bestselling author Jon Gordon in his new advice column. 

Gerald Bahlinger, the father of LSU student and Tiger Band member Matthew Bahlinger who died by suicide in 2022, has created a new foundation to support the LSU marching band and mental health care on campus, WAFB-TV reports. 

Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week with the labor market continuing to cruise along despite higher interest rates intended to cool hiring.

Theaters in Baton Rouge such as those operated by Cinemark and AMC are not immune from the current industry shutdown caused by the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes. As the strike prolongs, movie theaters across the nation face impending risk, Axios reports.