Business News

While ExxonMobil Corp. announced yesterday it would shed as much as 15% of its global workforce over the next year, it’s not clear whether the company’s Baton Rouge employees will be affected.

Dallas-based Rosewood Private Investments has acquired a majority stake in General Informatics, the local...

A building permit has been granted for construction to start on the new BASIS charter campus on Florida Boulevard, on the site of a former Honda dealership near Wooddale Boulevard. 

The pandemic has pushed QR code menus into the mainstream, with some Baton Rouge restaurants investing in the contactless codes for safety and cost reasons.

Though today’s Louisiana Board of Commerce & Industry meeting has been postponed due to Hurricane Zeta, industrial tax exemption requests from Genesis Energy and an appeal from Praxair remain sources of controversy.

The most recent special session of the Louisiana Legislature adjourned last week, although it...

A national firearms retailer is poised to move into the Baton Rouge market with a location planned for the Greens at Millerville, Windy Gladney’s mixed-use development at Millerville Road and Interstate 12.

That Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its latest economic indicator dashboard, which examines...

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...