Economic Development

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 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 litigants in the ongoing legal fight over the possible incorporation of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish have filed their briefs with the Louisiana Supreme Court. 

The record-breaking heat of the past several weeks has dried up large portions of...

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

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

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...

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.