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Even hot spots—like Ascension Parish—feeling effects of real estate slow down

It’s no secret the greater Baton Rouge real estate market is morphing out of...

Ochsner digitizing clinical trials through Pfizer partnership

Ochsner Health System announced it has struck a multi-year "strategic alliance" with pharmaceutical giant...

Wanting higher profile, IBM offering peek behind the curtain of its riverfront facility

(Editor's Note: This story has been revised from an earlier version to include updated...

Leasing challenges for under-construction Water Campus office building

It’s been six months since global engineering and design firm Stantec announced it was...

Alford: Locals prepare for a moment in the sun

If you’re ever bumping around the Capitol, and you hear someone refer to “the...

Alford: Locals prepare for a moment in the sun

If you’re ever bumping around the Capitol, and you hear someone refer to “the...

Prominent New Orleans hotel owner buys Nottoway Plantation

New Orleans business and hotel magnate Joseph Jaeger Jr. has purchased Nottoway Plantation in...

Baton Rouge residential market still shifting, January sales drop nearly 11%

The trend of a cooling Baton Rouge area housing market, which began late last...

Should planning department report to mayor, rather than Metro Council?

Should authority over the Planning Commission move from the Metro Council to the mayor-president’s...

Developing Louisiana talent key to Regents’ Master Plan update

Within the next 20 years, expect college—and high school—as we know it in Louisiana...