Economic Development

Elected officials have been eager of late to announce new projects and new funding...

Louisiana lawmakers went into the final day of the legislative session this morning still...

The city-parish will bid out the drainage and flood-control projects it is proposing to fund with some of the recent pandemic relief money appropriated to Baton Rouge in order to get work going more quickly, city-parish Director of Transportation and Drainage Fred Raiford says.

In the wake of Monday’s fatal road-rage shooting in the parking lot of his...

Going into 2020, the single-family residential market was relatively stable. While the pandemic initially...

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration has released its plan for spending the first batch of pandemic relief money coming to the city-parish under President Biden’s American Rescue Act.

The Metro Council will soon discuss the theoretical possibility of and process for implementing a building moratorium in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Economic development officials are celebrating this morning’s announcement by ExxonMobil that it will move...

ExxonMobil announced this morning it will move forward with a $247 million investment at its north Baton Rouge refinery to modernize and upgrade the aging facility and enhance its competitiveness.

Louisiana is poised to join more than a dozen other states allowing college athletes...