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Metro Council to consider look and placement of 5G cell towers under revised ordinance

Following more than a year of rewrites, a set of regulations for the look...

DOTD announces contractor for first phase of I-10 widening

Kiewit/Boh, a joint venture of two contractors based in Georgia and New Orleans, respectively,...

Pandemic leads companies to offer more voluntary medical benefits

Like many things in 2020, employee benefits and perks are being reshaped by the...

$235M in Deepwater Horizon oil spill funds approved for Louisiana restoration projects

Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved $234.6...

PPP borrowers being asked to justify why they needed loans of $2M or more

The Small Business Administration has begun asking some Paycheck Protection Program borrowers to document...

Baton Rouge retailers see little to no boost from state sales tax holiday

Baton Rouge retailers noticed little, if any, difference in business Friday and Saturday, when Louisiana’s state sales tax wasn’t charged on most purchases under a one-time sales tax holiday aimed to help people struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and recovering from hurricanes Laura and Delta.

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