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While other markets around the country are reporting growth in casino revenues, Baton Rouge’s trio of riverboat casinos saw its numbers drop slightly last month, according to the state gaming board’s latest report. 

The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council this week will consider endorsing a funding request for the $82 million Bayou Manchac Flood Reduction Plan.

Melara Enterprises—parent media company of Baton Rouge Business Report, Daily Report, 225 magazine, inRegister magazine and other south Louisiana publications—today announced it has acquired Launch Media, a local video and motion media production company, for an undisclosed price. 

Louisiana workers who remained in their jobs over the past year experienced the highest...

When it comes to doing business with the federal government, the past fiscal year was one for the record books. But one problem persists: the number of small businesses contracting with the government continues to dwindle, Inc. reports. 

Louisiana is one of several states in the South and Mountain West to experience an increase in manufacturing over the past year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 

Lucas Spielfogel is executive director of the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition, a free program...

Laura Eiklor, the new manager at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge plastics and resin finishing plant,...

Louisiana set a record last month for the most state residents ever employed in June, according to federal data released today. 

No one from Louisiana has ever made a call to space. That will change Tuesday when earthbound students ring up NASA astronauts orbiting above.