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Capital Region industrial plants and the companies that service them were hard hit by losses—not to infrastructure, but to employees

Epic Piping’s new 268,000-square-foot facility in Livingston Parish, which opened in July, was among...

For area hospitals, keeping floodwaters out was not as difficult as keeping employees in

Area hospitals were spared major flooding, but were challenged by limited staffs and supplies...

Open or shut, restaurants took on losses in the flood

Walk-On’s, which had just opened in March, is among the restaurants and businesses in...

Recovery promises to be a lot easier for the area’s large, big box retailers than for local independent businesses

The Royal Standard at 16016 Perkins Road took on nearly three feet of water,...

Agriculture losses in south Louisiana are at $110 million and growing

  It will take until at least early September for officials to gauge the exact...

A new pilot program brings cancer screenings to Baton Rouge businesses

Lipsey's has already hosted its first screening for skin cancer at its Baton Rouge...

New taxes on hospitals are spurring legal challenges and could lead to higher prices for patients

Though hospitals have no way to pass along the cost of higher state taxes...

Most objectives in Baton Rouge’s master plan have been initiated since it was adopted in 2011, but some of the biggest remain a work...

The current Unified Development Code is "a real barrier to development" and needs to...

Publisher: We will come back strong

Over these past two months, our community has suffered pain and adversity, but our...

Riegel: How entrepreneurial know-how turned Celtic into a community of caring

Some of the biggest movies ever filmed in Louisiana were shot at Celtic Media...
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