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Companies are being pushed by employees and customers to take public stands on controversial issues, but executives are learning the hard way that some opinions are best kept quiet.

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.

On the one-year anniversary of its first confirmed COVID-19 case, Louisiana is widening coronavirus...

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...

Cou-Yon’s BBQ, consistently ranked one of the top barbecue restaurants by 225, today announced it has rolled out another location for its signature pecan-smoked pit barbecue: a permanent food truck stationed at Bluebonnet Boulevard and Burbank Drive.

Social Coffee, which currently serves its coffee and espressos from a counter at Chow Yum Phat on Perkins Road, is moving into a brick-and-mortar location in downtown Baton Rouge.

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.