Healthcare

Small agency, big job: Biden tasks OSHA with vaccine mandate

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn’t make many headlines. Charged with keeping America’s workplaces safe, it usually busies itself with tasks such as setting and enforcing standards for goggles, hardhats and ladders.

BRAC: ‘Far more questions than answers’ on Biden’s vaccination orders

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is advising investors to take a “wait and see” approach to President Joe Biden’s recent order that companies with 100 or more employees require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to regular testing. 

Design: Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp.

LWCC wanted a modern look along with touches of Louisiana in its $26 million upgrade and renovation of its headquarters.

States begin filing lawsuits against vaccine mandate 

Twenty-seven Republican governors or attorneys general, including Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, have vowed...

LSU president meeting with Biden, CEOs on COVID vaccine mandate

President Joe Biden is meeting today with the CEOs of Walt Disney and Columbia...

COVID hospitalizations decline in Baton Rouge area

COVID-19 hospitalizations have been trending downward in the Baton Rouge area for the past couple of weeks, possibly indicating that the fourth wave and spread of the Delta variant may be diminishing.

Louisiana PAC supporting Sen. John Kennedy returns donation from nursing homes owner

The Conservative Louisiana political action committee, which supports Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, returned...

LABI calls Biden’s vaccine mandate unconstitutional, counterproductive

President Joe Biden’s administration lacks the legal authority to require large companies to ensure their employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 or have them tested for the coronavirus that causes the illness, Louisiana’s largest business lobby argues. 

LSU researcher studying how to better preserve donated organs for transplants 

An LSU mechanical engineering professor has been awarded a $432,000 grant from the National...

Recovery from Ida uneven across Louisiana 

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