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The Capital Region’s unemployment rate is at a record-low 2.6%, while the Baton Rouge area is 0.5% away from fully recovering the pandemic jobs losses, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber reports.

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today released the strategic framework that will guide its work under CEO Chris Meyer. 

The Downtown Development District is about to begin planning for the next phase of downtown Baton Rouge’s growth. 

Port Allen's Placid Refining Co. has purchased the building that formerly housed the Baton Rouge Area Foundation along with a parking lot straddling the Central Fire Station on Laurel Street for $4.78 million.

Commercial Properties Realty Trust has purchased 22 tracts in the Nicholson Drive corridor for $3.02 million

A 1,000-sample poll went into the field in Louisiana on Thursday to test, among other things, the name of state Democratic Party Chair Katie Bernhardt for governor.

Baton Rouge officials and businesses will host a “Live After Five Lagniappe” on Jan. 13 downtown as part of the Louisiana Marathon weekend. 

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the Louisiana Chemical Association are praising a federal judge’s recent ruling that Livingston Parish cannot enforce a carbon capture and sequestration moratorium. 

As one year gives way to another, politicos in Louisiana will increasingly turn their collective attention to Washington Mardi Gras, the multiday extravaganza slated for late next month in the Beltway.

New building and energy codes that kick in next year are expected to add an average of $2,000-$2,500 to the cost of building a house in the Capital Region, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Baton Rouge.