Economic Development

Blu Spero is opening a Perkins Rowe location, building permits show.

Davis Rhorer, longtime executive director of the Downtown Development District and a tireless advocate...

City constables and Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport police are in line to receive a pay raise under a plan the Broome administration will introduce to the Metro Council at its meeting Wednesday.

HUB International Limited, a Chicago-headquartered global insurance brokerage firm, has acquired the assets of...

Lafayette-based Waitr has entered into an agreement to acquire Delivery Dudes, a south Florida-based...

Not for the first time, Louisiana has scored dead last in a ranking of the 50 states published by U.S. News. In its annual Best States Rankings, the publication draws on “thousands of data points to measure how well states are performing for their citizens,” and concludes that Louisiana is failing in all the major areas that count.

Downtown Development District Executive Director Davis Rhorer has been hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19, which has shaken up the organization for much of the first quarter of 2021.

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index rose to 95.8 in February, a slight bump...

Senate Democrats voted to advance the latest round of the stimulus bill, which now...

Lower oil prices and a stagnant fee structure have prompted officials at the Department...