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Over the past decade, rail corporations have been running more lengthy freight trains—some as long as 3 miles—partly to save fuel and labor costs.

Energy services firm Baker Hughes Co. says that the U.S. oil and gas rig...

A conservative-leaning coalition has doubled down on its request to lawmakers that they stay...

As nationwide staffing issues continue, causing companies to grapple with filling seasonal summer jobs, BREC is turning to partnerships to find temporary staff. 

Patrick Courreges, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, says DNR doesn’t expect much impact here, adding that state regulators don’t necessarily use the same definitions for wetlands as the EPA.

A Michigan-based real estate investment trust company has purchased a property on Florida Boulevard for a little over $1 million.

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge participated in a major federally funded study of long COVID, which refers to symptoms and conditions that continue or develop after an initial COVID-19 infection. 

Louisiana lawmakers have reached a tentative agreement to give public school teachers and other school staff a $2,000 and $1,000 annual raise respectively, legislators across the political spectrum confirmed this week.

This weekend marks the unofficial start to summer and the pressure is on for...

The U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal agencies of authority over millions of acres of wetlands, expanding the ability of farmers, homebuilders and other developers to dig up or fill wetlands near rivers, lakes and streams.