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East Baton Rouge Parish is working on a major traffic signal overhaul meant to make drivers’ commute times consistent and predictable. 

The Planning Commission, during its October meeting, will consider Capitol City Produce’s plans for expansion. 

Some 8% of young children in Louisiana are in families in which someone quit, changed or refused a job because child care is hard to find and even harder to afford, according to a June report released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  

Companies will have to disclose more details about the income taxes they pay to government authorities under new requirements approved by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, a move to provide investors with greater transparency. 

As business leaders work to get more employees back in the office, some are...

Hammond-based Stoa Group submitted its final development plan for an apartment community at Materra, the 100-acre planned community fronting Airline Highway near Woman’s Hospital.

Eleven fake checks with previously used check numbers were drawn from the East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Narcotics Seizure account, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office reports. 

Three organizations that reside inside the beating heart of commerce in the Bayou State—the Committee of 100; Louisiana Association of Business and Industry; and Louisiana Economic Development—will all have new leadership installed over the next five months.

Registration is now open for Louisiana Economic Development’s 2023 Louisiana Small Business Summit, an annual event that connects small business leaders with an array of resources available to them from across the state.

Houston-based SunGas Renewables plans to revitalize the shuttered 1,300-acre International Paper mill in Pineville...