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After a committee was created last year to look at short-term rental regulations around the country and consider what would work for Baton Rouge, virtually no work has been completed and officials say efforts won’t resume until 2021. 

 Gov. John Bel Edwards filed a lawsuit Monday challenging House Republicans' efforts to rescind...

A local entrepreneur plans to open an automated pizza system in a 25-foot container in the Tigerland parking lot in February, building on a make-your-own pizza trend that appears to be coming to Baton Rouge.

Sales of new U.S.  single-family homes unexpectedly fell in September after four months of...

Local developer Prescott Bailey has left Lafayette-based Southern Lifestyle Development and formed two new ventures—Novus Reb Engineering, a civil engineering group that focuses on infrastructure and site design for real estate projects, and Onyx Ventures, which will do site selection and development feasibility analysis.

Local restaurateur Mitch Rotolo Sr. has plans for a new pizza restaurant. The Hive Pizza, which will be in the Siegen Professional Plaza retail center next to Burger Smith, will feature personal-sized pizzas, according to its menu. The restaurant will offer build-you-own pizzas as well as a curated selection of specialty pies. 

Louisiana House Republicans planned to file a petition Friday to revoke Gov. John Bel...

Some residents of the Sherwood Forest, Tara and Sharpstowne neighborhoods left last night’s Metro...

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s political action committee, FuturePAC, released its endorsements this week...

Los Angeles-based JRK Property Holdings, a real estate investment group, has bought the Indigo Park by Cortland apartment complex on Nicholson Drive for $46.4 million.