Business News

Local entrepreneur Nitin Kamath, the developer behind Aztek Cove, is expected to hold a public meeting this afternoon at the River Center Branch Library to discuss the controversial project and proposed accompanying economic development district. 

Outgoing Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul and Mayor Sharon Weston Broome are scheduled Wednesday to give the Metro Council an update on the ongoing “BRAVE Cave” investigation. 

It took a city-parish crew roughly 40 minutes on an early morning in September to fill a dump truck with mattresses, a rotting couch and other trash collected from behind an abandoned apartment complex off Florida Boulevard. 

An Ascension Parish-based emergency service provider is expanding its operations to include an Our Lady of the Lake facility in Napoleonville.

It took a city-parish crew roughly 40 minutes on an early morning in September...

East Baton Rouge city-parish sales tax collections were just slightly ahead of last year’s pace through July, according to the latest report made public today. 

Councilmen Dwight Hudson and Rowdy Gaudet both say they’ve heard opposition from constituents regarding the creation of an economic development district at the Aztek Cove development. 

A surge of small businesses could be reshaping America’s economic and entrepreneurial ecosystem, Inc. reports.

More companies are borrowing against their assets, including inventory and receivables, as finance chiefs look to bolster liquidity amid financial stress from inflation and high interest rates, The Wall Street Journal reports.  

Federal appeals court judges in New Orleans closely questioned voting rights advocates and attorneys...