Economic Development

Louisiana comes in as the 37th best state to start a business in the latest ranking from Forbes Advisor. The Bayou State trailed most other Southern states.

Officials with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority are forging ahead with a new coastal master plan for 2023, and are now moving into a public comment phase through March.

The city-parish received $20.66 million from its 2% sales and use tax collections during...

The LSU Provost’s Fund for Innovation in Research will give $1.1 million in faculty...

Republican gubernatorial candidates Attorney General Jeff Landry, Treasurer John Schroder, State Sen. Sharon Hewitt of Slidell and State Rep. Richard Nelson of Mandeville are slated to speak at the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s 2023 annual meeting on March 2, LABI announced this morning.  

State and city-parish officials and ExxonMobil leadership are set to celebrate the startup of the company’s long-awaited polypropylene growth project at its north Baton Rouge plant on Thursday. 

The Capital Region’s economy is the 13th-most diversified among 384 metro areas nationwide, according to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber.

A small, historically Black university known for successfully moving its graduates into medical school...

One of the fastest-growing jobs at U.S. companies tackles worker burnout and disengagement.  

More new businesses formed in East Baton Rouge Parish during this past December than in December 2021. But total new businesses in the parish for 2022 lagged the previous year’s total, according to the latest numbers released by the city-parish.