Economic Development

Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment and Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks today announced a...

Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced $163 million in federal funding for 15 state...

Nearly 200 businesses are pressing Congress for paid and more expansive family leave, a...

Plans are nearing completion for the redevelopment of the former Earl K. Long Medical Center site on Airline Highway into a mixed-use development with health care, educational and recreational services, as well as more than 60 affordable senior housing units.

Business First Bancshares, the holding company for b1BANK, and Smith Shellnut Wilson LLC today...

Mississippi River cruises are back, with two riverboats set to land in downtown Baton Rouge this week, one year after the cruises halted due to coronavirus restrictions.

In a 180-degree turn from 2020, retailers’ expansion plans so far this year are...

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber recently released a special economic indicator report, looking at...

The red-hot housing market has achieved a number of milestones this past year. Perhaps...

Baton Rouge-area industry leaders are determining how they may be affected by Canadian Pacific Railway’s plans to acquire Kansas City Southern in a $25 billion deal that would create the first freight-rail network linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.