Business News

The LSU Board of Supervisors seems to be playing big-dollar politics with a contract to modernize the energy plant at the Baton Rouge campus.

The local banking community is applauding today’s announcement by the U.S. Small Business Administration that it is simplifying the loan forgiveness application for Paycheck Protection Program loans of $50,000 or less.

The political action committees of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry have taken...

If a proposed modification to the Old Hammond Highway Overlay District allowing for the development of a controversial Murphy Oil gas station secures Metro Council approval later this month, it would join just a few other cases where properties have successfully been removed from one of the parish’s 10 overlay districts in recent years.

Cafe Petra, a Greek and Lebanese restaurant in St. Francisville, is expanding to Baton...

Baton Rouge General will open the second-floor primary care clinic of its Ascension Neighborhood...

Nearly two years after filing suit over construction problems that delayed the since-completed downtown library, the city-parish has filed an amended version of the lawsuit, once again naming its general contractor, Buquet & LeBlanc, as a defendant in the case.

When Louisiana voters go to the polls next month, among the items on the...

Republican Louisiana lawmakers trying to chisel away at Gov. John Bel Edwards’ coronavirus restrictions...

Despite LSU moving Saturday’s planned home game to Missouri due to Hurricane Delta, Baton Rouge’s hospitality industry is heading into this weekend expecting a boost in business—which, at first glance, may seem counterintuitive.