Economic Development

Melara Enterprises—parent media company of Baton Rouge Business Report, Daily Report, 225 magazine, inRegister magazine and other south Louisiana publications—today announced it has acquired Launch Media, a local video and motion media production company, for an undisclosed price. 

Louisiana workers who remained in their jobs over the past year experienced the highest...

Louisiana is one of several states in the South and Mountain West to experience an increase in manufacturing over the past year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 

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

Baton Rouge may be an outlier in the latest housing trend as the national median price for an existing single-family home converges with the price of a newly built home.

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. 

As Louisiana gets closer to the possibility of adding a second majority Black congressional...

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.