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BREC superintendent to lay out agency’s economic outlook before Metro Council

BREC Superintendent Corey Wilson will present a report on the agency’s economic outlook and...

EBR sales tax collections drop in March

February East Baton Rouge Parish General 2% Sales and Use Tax by Holly Duchmann

LED moving headquarters to River Road

Louisiana Economic Development is planning to move its headquarters to a building on North...

SoGo Tea Bar has closed, but it may not be gone for good

SoGo Tea Bar, a tea shop inside Red Stick Spice Company on Jefferson Highway,...

‘LaPolitics’: New secretary of state goes 11-for-11 during session

During her first statewide campaign last year, Secretary of State Nancy Landry was sometimes...

ExxonMobil awards EPC contract for Louisiana CCUS project

ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract to Technip...

​​Marucci, Victus to become the official bats of Major League Baseball

Baton Rouge-based Marucci Sports on Friday announced that it has entered into a license...

Kolache Kitchen announces closure of corporate-owned locations

Will Edwards, owner and founder of Kolache Kitchen, announced the closure of all company-owned...

Is the COVID-19 ‘bicycle boom’ over for Baton Rouge bike shops?

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. experienced a “bicycle boom”—a...

Surprise legislation targets control of Research Park Corp. and Nexus Louisiana

If signed by the governor, amendments to what was once a sickle cell anemia...