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A new legislative task force is looking at how to help Louisiana’s municipalities survive.

Mortgage lending in the Baton Rouge metro area was up almost 20% in the second quarter of the year, which is in line with national trends, new data shows. 

Companies using generative AI to produce everything from ad slogans to press releases are...

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as companies held on to employees in an economy that has largely withstood rapidly rising interest rates from the Federal Reserve intended to cool hiring and spending.  

The Capital Region dominates the 2023 LSU Roaring 20 list, representing half of the...

The Baton Rouge metro area is expected to add another 3,000 jobs in the third quarter of this year, according to the latest economic forecast from UL Lafayette’s B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration. 

The Biden administration is proposing a rule that would make some 3.6 million additional U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay. 

DNA Workshop and Cox Communications are winners of this year’s Diversity Star awards from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. The awards were announced today during BRAC’s second annual Economic Inclusion Symposium.    

Baton Rouge-based home repair company Guarantee Restoration Services announced today that it is opening an office in Mobile, Alabama, its sixth location overall and first in that state.

Scientists at the LSU AgCenter have secured a patent for poison gummies that could finally reduce an exploding feral hog population causing as much as $100 million in annual agriculture losses and threatening the integrity of Louisiana's levee system, USA Today Network reports.