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With 4,300 new jobs in August, the Baton Rouge area ranked first among peer metros for year-over-year job growth, according to the latest economic indicator report from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber.  

A Gonzales developer hopes to bring new restaurants and residential spaces to Choctaw Drive. 

A couple of $1 million-plus deals were filed this week changing ownership of commercial...

To handle the risk of massive payouts, insurance companies sell policies across different markets—reasoning...

The LSU AgCenter and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture are partnering to bring a drone training curriculum to high school students across the state.

No other candidates running for the Louisiana Legislature this year have a campaign strategy...

While the turmoil has eased after rising interest rates helped spark a regional-banking crisis earlier this year, local bank stocks have yet to bounce back, following national trends. 

Five Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty members and one adjunct professor rank among the most cited researchers in the world, according to the Google Scholar Citations database.

Small business optimism declined again in September, according to the latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business.  

ExxonMobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion―its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago―creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas.