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East Baton Rouge Parish’s City Park Lake dredging effort and the state’s Interstate 10...

BASF’s Beth Holland says the digitalization of processes during the current methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, or MDI, plant expansion in Geismar has brought some unexpected challenges.

Entergy is continuing to pursue federal grant funding that would offset the cost of projects to strengthen Louisiana’s power grid, the company announced this morning. 

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 new report released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Baton Rouge’s office sector is seeing a bit of improvement when it comes to...

LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey scored another victory with a buzzer-beater addition to the state construction budget that could help build a new basketball arena. 

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome will ask the Metro Council to approve spending almost $3.7 million for a second round of improvements to the Raising Cane’s River Center, following the $2.3 million allocated last year.

The Tipsy Librarian will begin hosting cocktail mixology classes in a dedicated bricks-and-mortar retail location this fall.

The owners of Town Square Pizza aim to open at the North Boulevard Town Square in early July, says Elisabeth McKinley, restaurant general manager. 

East Baton Rouge Parish Chief Administrative Officer Glenn Curtis will play a role in the ongoing humanitarian efforts in Ukraine during that nation’s war with Russia, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s office announced today.