Economic Development

For the first time in the long history of both organizations, the Louisiana Municipal...

Louisiana lawmakers have made three significant changes that went into effect this week on how the state regulates the craft beer business. 

It’s the Walls Project’s birthday. The multifaceted nonprofit is celebrating a big milestone: a decade of making waves in Baton Rouge through its mission to dismantle poverty with a strong focus on arts, education and community empowerment.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is traveling to the Netherlands and France beginning Friday...

BASF announced today that it will invest $19.8 million in its Ascension Parish manufacturing complex to increase production of the chemical intermediates HEP and NOP that are part of the global supply chain for inkjets,

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries' Shrimp Task Force meeting Wednesday featured an...

More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week as the number of unemployed continues to rise modestly, though the labor market remains one of the strongest parts of the U.S. economy.

East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor Sharon Weston Broome has proposed the first across-the-board pay raise for city-parish employees since 2015, plus additional raises for police following two pay bumps last year. Can Baton Rouge afford it?

If city-parish sales tax receipts are any indication, higher prices are not holding back East Baton Rouge Parish consumers.

BCP wanted to pay the city well over $200 million, and assume another $200 million or so of LUS debt, in exchange for keeping most of the revenue the system would generate for at least two decades.