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LSU women’s basketball forward Angel Reese, who guided the team to its first national championship is joining LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

More than 50 lawmakers have sent a formal letter asking FEMA for answers about the inner workings of Risk Rating 2.0.

LSU is moving into controlled field trials of a patent-pending bait to address wild, invasive pigs that are causing millions in damage to Louisiana farms. 

Ravioli … in the crawfish boil? What constitutes—and violates—the laws of king cake? How about where to find the best seafood plate in Ascension Parish, or ramen in Baton Rouge?

Most of the money the 18,000 investors put in—the Baton Rouge office alone wrote an estimated $2 billion worth of bogus certificates of deposit—is likely long gone.

The Louisiana program that subsidizes movie production in the state appears to benefit the state’s economy because it generates more household income than it costs.

Modern artists have digital tools to help them create music, but collaboration with other musicians often involves emailing files back and forth, which often isn’t ideal for the creative process. 

The shortage of workers that has been plagueing businesses across multiple industries for months on end might become a new normal, Axios reports. 

With the health care industry facing a worsening shortage of trained workers, Propel America and The College of Health Care Professions are partnering to launch a tuition-free pilot program in Baton Rouge to train workers for in-demand medical field jobs.  

The incentives Louisiana provides to motion picture productions have been linked to money spent on early childhood education in the ongoing debate over the...

The final act of the Stanford Group scandal seems to be playing out 14 years after the Ponzi scheme financially and emotionally ravaged the lives of so many Baton Rouge investors.

Unglesby Law Firm is moving from its location on Napoleon Street downtown to an office off of Highland Road after nearly five decades in downtown...

The owners of a new tubing and kayaking business in Livingston Parish are vowing to put safety first—and are looking to distance themselves from...

A new interiors and gift shop debuts this Saturday on Highland Road. 

Alabama fired its baseball coach this week amid an investigation into suspicious bets involving a Crimson Tide game at LSU. The school did not give...

America’s employers added a healthy 253,000 jobs in April, evidence of a labor market that still shows surprising resilience despite rising interest rates.

When Mimi Singer Lee, the chief human resources officer for b1Bank, came over from LSU, she was leaving an organization with some 5,000 employees for one with only about 150. 

As part of its senior capstone design project, a team of LSU mechanical engineering students is developing a process that could make embedding both...

This week, the 20-time Emmy-nominated PBS series Antiques Roadshow made Baton Rouge its first stop for its upcoming season.

Baton Rouge’s third-ever 24-hour online fundraiser supporting local nonprofits is happening today.