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• Gov. John Bel Edwards is holding a news conference today at 2:30 p.m....

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its latest COVID-19 economic indicator dashboard that...

This week marks five months since the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 as a...

• The U.S. added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains...

Jason DeCuir, a trusted ally of the business lobby and the chairman of the...

In a meeting this morning of the Louisiana Economic Recovery Task Force, Dr. Stephen Barnes, an economist at UL-Lafayette and a member of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference, said data suggests the economic downturn will last longer and be harder to recover from than originally thought. “While we had initially hoped this would be a much shorter event, as time passes more and more permanent damage is being done,” Barnes said. “That is going to give you a recovery path that might look more and more like the Great Recession did than the recovery after an event like Katrina.”

3 things to know: Domoine Rutledge is the vice president and general counsel for CSRS, joining the company after working decades for the EBR school system.

Consumer spending had normalized in the Capital Region to near pre-pandemic levels in the...

Black members of the business community, through the sharing of their stories, put the spotlight on boosting economic opportunities.

BRAC and other local organizations are determined to bring increased diversity to boardrooms across the Baton Rouge region.