Economic Development

A recent “brain drain” analysis of how many college graduates stay in the state where they studied has both good news and bad news for Louisiana, depending on how you want to look at it. 

A floating liquefied natural gas port proposed off of Louisiana is gaining new momentum...

Symbolic of Baton Rouge not capitalizing on opportunities to embrace the future is the rejection of the downtown ALIVE project.

Though summer is still not officially over, consumers are already getting started on their holiday shopping, which means small businesses and retailers need to be ready for a different end-of-year rush than usual, Inc. reports.

East Baton Rouge Parish this summer saw declines in major categories of violent crime, which Mayor Sharon Weston Broome attributes at least in part to her administration’s community engagement efforts. 

Louisiana is in the early phase of a grant program to expand broadband internet...

The revitalization of Baton Rouge’s downtown, which has transformed it from empty storefronts in...

Illness caused by COVID-19 shrank the U.S. labor force by around 500,000 people, a...

Louisiana has submitted a plan to spend an expected $73 million in federal funds to build a network of electric vehicle charging stations along the state’s major highways over the next five years.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates reached their highest levels in almost 14 years this week, helping to push some would-be buyers out of the market.