Economic Development

The pandemic has unleashed a historic burst in entrepreneurship and self-employment, The Wall Street...

The Louisiana Legislature’s “roadshow” to hear from the public about the redrawing of the state’s political maps is halfway done, and already the hearings have offered a glimpse of how personal and heated the redistricting work will be in the February special session.

Kergan Bros., the largest Sonic franchisee in Louisiana, sold its 56 locations to a California-based franchisee with locations in Texas and the Midwest, documents from the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court show, The Daily Advertiser reports. 

Not even Christmas trees could escape the economic mayhem of 2021. 

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century, another sign that the U.S. job market is rebounding rapidly from last year’s coronavirus recession.

With more than 500 applications submitted by Louisiana communities hoping to upgrade their failing water and sewer systems, lawmakers say there’s not enough money in the water sector program budget to fix everything.

In a way, everything came full circle for Justin Ehrenwerth when he landed at The Water Institute of the Gulf nearly five years ago. For a while, though, it was hard to predict the direction his life might take.

Baton Rouge is the 12th-most expensive city in the nation to rent a car for the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, the personal finance website FinanceBuzz finds.

From a cursory glance at the latest jobs data from the Bureau of Labor...

Pennsylvania-based industrial gas company Air Products, which in October announced plans for a massive...