Economic Development

Baton Rouge hotels are all booked up—some through September—with evacuees from hurricane-devastated areas and emergency personnel brought in to assist with post-storm cleanup.

Business owners affected by Hurricane Ida right now primarily are concerned with “primal needs” such as water, ice, fuel and electricity, says Stephen Waguespack, president and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. 

The LSU AgCenter is still working to assess the damage to Louisiana agriculture caused...

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released an analysis of responses to its Hurricane...

Anyone who lived through Hurricane Katrina will remember what life was like in Baton Rouge for several chaotic months after the storm, when thousands of residents and businesses from New Orleans and surrounding parishes temporarily relocated to the area.

Congressman Garret Graves is urging the federal government to use some of its strategic petroleum reserve and to suspend certain regulations on refiners in hopes of relieving fuel shortages in Louisiana and other areas affected by Hurricane Ida. 

Power and oil-and-gas production are starting to come back after Hurricane Ida, but there's...

Lawmakers are planning to repurpose about $205 billion in unused COVID relief funds to...

Four days after Hurricane Ida struck, the storm's aftermath—and progress in recovering from it—are...

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has been holding daily briefings with relief organizations to...