Business News

Telemedicine isn’t new but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed virtual visits over the edge, forever changing the health care delivery system.

Business Lunch: Eliza Restaurant, on Jefferson Highway, features a Modern Creole cuisine, highlighting seasonal and local ingredients.

Though teachers, parents and some students fear the reopening of schools with in-person learning...

• Louisiana is reporting 1,601 new COVID-19 cases today and 61 new deaths, WBRZ-TV...

LSU’s Panhellenic Council announced last week via Instagram post that recruitment week for the...

• The U.S. added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains...

Jason DeCuir, a trusted ally of the business lobby and the chairman of the...

While the coronavirus pandemic has done damage to many sectors of the economy, it hasn’t had a negative effect on residential real estate, at least not yet. On the contrary, home sale activity in East Baton Rouge Parish through July is slightly higher than it was for the same period in 2019 or 2018, according to an analysis of MLS data compiled by the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors and provided by local real estate agents.

In a meeting this morning of the Louisiana Economic Recovery Task Force, Dr. Stephen Barnes, an economist at UL-Lafayette and a member of the state’s Revenue Estimating Conference, said data suggests the economic downturn will last longer and be harder to recover from than originally thought. “While we had initially hoped this would be a much shorter event, as time passes more and more permanent damage is being done,” Barnes said. “That is going to give you a recovery path that might look more and more like the Great Recession did than the recovery after an event like Katrina.”

• The Louisiana Department of Health reported 1,345 new COVID-19 cases today and another...