Economic Development

Louisiana Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson says that although he supports, in concept, a preliminary proposal to raise the state’s gasoline tax to fund needed construction projects, he is concerned about language in the plan that calls for “reforming” the way his department operates.

Grön Fuels’ proposed renewable fuels complex in West Baton Rouge Parish has been named...

Worried about tax policy changes under a Biden administration, business owners and investors were scrambling at year’s end to reduce exposure.

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome was hosting a meeting at 2 p.m. today with key...

Beau Box Commercial Real Estate has expanded into the Florida Panhandle with a Pensacola office.

JR Ball: ExxonMobil is making it clear that if we want the company to keep investing in Baton Rouge then its ITEP approval on its modernization project better get the OK.

Publisher Rolfe McCollister discusses Baton Rouge's challenge in answering Austin's entrepreneur challenge, plus thoughts on the passing of Luke Letlow and Sharon Weston Broome's mayoral win.

Three years after Gov. John Bel Edwards announced funding had been identified to begin widening a busy stretch of Interstate 10 through Baton Rouge from the Mississippi River to the I-10/I-12 split, several key questions about the project remain unanswered

A Baton Rouge-based coalition determined to invest in the state’s crumbling roads and bridges will once again push for a gasoline tax when the Legislature convenes in April.

CST Land Developers, LLC, today announced plans for a $28 million apartment community in Livingston Parish called the Reserve at Juban Lakes.