Economic Development

A legislative task force on Friday heard from state officials on the status of Louisiana’s water systems in its bid to craft recommendations for improvements.

In Louisiana, the energy transition away from high-intensity carbon fuels is focused on things such as creating lower-carbon hydrogen and capturing climate-warming carbon from industry and directly from the air.

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, parent company of Our Lady of the Lake, has ended its bid to purchase Mississippi’s Singing River Health System. 

Four tracts of federal Gulf of Mexico waters of Texas and Louisiana, ranging from...

The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions. 

The LSU AgCenter is partnering with several universities and countries on a $22 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development to make cereal crops more readily available. 

Louisiana and Amtrak officials signed an agreement today that lays the foundation for the resumption of passenger rail service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards and Amtrak Chief Executive Officer Stephen Gardner joined other officials to sign a service development agreement that will advance the return of intercity passenger rail service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

The volume of office sales in the Baton Rouge market is still declining as...

Switzerland-based Proman has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Corp. to explore building a world-scale ultra low-carbon ammonia facility in Lake Charles, reports Chemical Engineering magazine.