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The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge has begun reaching out to companies outside the Capital Region in an effort to recruit them to Baton Rouge. 

Almost two years ago, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center dissolved their alliance, stunning leaders across the Capital Region health care sector. 

As Louisiana gets closer to the possibility of adding a second majority Black congressional...

Federal regulators announced Thursday the first ever Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale, opening sites off the coast of Lake Charles and Galveston, Texas, that could potentially power nearly 1.3 million homes. 

LaPolitics: What should legislative incumbents be worried about as their reelection bids begin in earnest? 

Louisiana’s combined state and local sales tax rate of 9.547% is the second highest nationally, according to the Tax Foundation’s midyear report. 

Leaving the Legislature: Louisiana's second ranking state House lawmaker, Republican Speaker Pro-tem Tanner Magee...

While recent legislation might eventually make it easier for Louisiana businesses to remit sales taxes, it doesn’t achieve advocates’ longtime goal of centralizing state sales tax collection. 

The organization that owns the Lincoln Theater will ask the Planning Commission at its meeting next month to rezone the property from light industrial to light commercial use. 

The dining and drinking scene continues to evolve in Baton Rouge with a number of notable openings that ought to be on your bucket list. Here’s a sampling of some of the new spots so far in 2023: