Economic Development

While the Texas Legislature is considering bills designed to reduce the state’s reliance on wind and solar power, Edwards happily described his work with Louisiana Republicans to turn that state into a hub for clean energy along the Gulf Coast. 

Three of Louisiana’s most prominent nonpartisan policy groups have unveiled a slate of briefings and recommendations that they hope will help guide and inform this year’s state elections. 

The restaurant is one of several newcomers in Ascension Parish, meeting the demand of a population that has grown by more than 50,000 since 2000.

For companies that need to borrow money these days, it pays to be big, The Wall Street Journal reports.  

Legislation that would renew the incentive program that subsidizes Louisiana’s film sector easily cleared the state House of Representatives and awaits a vote in the Senate. 

The collective revenue posted by Baton Rouge's three riverboat casinos was down 8.4% in...

The Baton Rouge metro area added about 2,100 jobs from March to April and about 14,400 jobs since April of last year, the Louisiana Workforce Commission reported today. 

Louisiana is expected to see slower job growth in the second half of the...

Master Gardener, a Paul Schrader film shot last year in St. Francisville, gets its nationwide release this weekend.

The city of Baton Rouge is losing population at a rapid rate while East Baton Rouge Parish’s suburban cities—Zachary and Central— and its two most populated neighboring parishes—Livingston and Ascension—are gaining residents.