Ascension Business Report

🔒 Hymel’s Seafood in Convent closes after 70 years

Hymel’s Seafood Restaurant has closed after 70 years in business, the restaurant announced in a...

🔒 Cook: The Cove finds a new home on Essen

The building at 5625 Essen Lane that had been home to French Quarter Daiquiri...

🔒 Baton Rouge area enrollment in National Flood Insurance Program spiked after 2016 flood

Enrollment in the National Flood Insurance Program rose by more than 40% in eight...

🔒 Focusing on safety, there’s rising demand across Baton Rouge for high school athletic trainers

ATHLETIC TRAINING: LSU, which will soon offers a masters-level program, typically graduates 15 to...

🔒 Publisher: Ascension Parish politics a bit like Russia

Last year in this column I expressed my belief that Ascension Parish might be...

🔒 Hannah Q’s Barbecue latest restaurant moving to Government Street

Hannah Q’s Barbecue, a Prairieville-based restaurant, is opening its second location in the Government...

🔒 Cook: Sonic to close Prairieville location

The Sonic Drive-In situated on the east side of Airline Highway in Prairieville, just...

🔒 Forty under 40 Q&A: Katie Gibbons

(Photos by Amy Martin) Katie Gibbons, 37 Vice President-Private Client Relationship Manager, IBERIABANK PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Grew private...

🔒 Ascension business leaders pushing for new form of parish government

Business leaders Brandon Trosclair, left, and John Scanlan are leading the move to replace...

🔒 Suburban Growth: Families and businesses moving into fast growing Ascension and Livingston parishes

The arrival of Bass Pro signified Livingston Parish was no longer simply a collection...