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Hardware store planned for vacant Overpass Cleaners building

The longtime manager of Government Street True Value hardware, which closed in mid-January after...

‘Daily Report’ week in review: Metro Council defers decision on temporary space for downtown library, city-parish lawsuit settlements for sewage backups on the rise...

The Metro Council on Wednesday punted on voting for two items that would have...

Bar owner hopes to be open in renovated Zee Zee Gardens building by mid-March

Extensive renovations are underway to the building at 2904 Perkins Road that for decades...

Baton Rouge settlement payments in sewage-backup lawsuits increased 34% in 2015

The city-parish last year paid out more than $1.13 million settling lawsuits filed by...

Rigorous BASIS charter school set to open in Baton Rouge in 2017

Plans are on track for the fall 2017 opening in Baton Rouge of Louisiana’s...

Baton Rouge councilman wants proposed economic opportunity zone to include entire northern part of parish

As the local and state officials meet to draw boundaries on the proposed Economic...

Northside Motor Exchange building in ‘downtown east’ to become collaborative shared space for artists, creative entrepreneurs

The long vacant Northside Motor Exchange Building at 655 Scenic Highway, in the neighborhood...

Waguespack, Scott and Spain talk politics, economy and progress at Leadership Power Breakfast

As Louisiana Association of Business and Industry President Stephen Waguespack prepared to deliver his...

AG’s opinion clears Dorsey-Colomb to work in clerk of court’s office, but no hire imminent

Though state Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb has received an Attorney General’s opinion stating she could...

Solving Baton Rouge gridlock problem is harder than it looks, says local traffic expert

We’ve sent astronauts to the moon, created smartphones and cured certain cancers, so why...
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