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Tax proposals that could cost the state and local governments millions of dollars, but may benefit businesses, quietly advanced out of a state Senate committee Monday. 

The success or failure of a rapidly growing carbon capture, use and storage, or CCUS sector is shaping up to be a matter of survival for the oil and gas industry as the world treads down the “energy transition” path, according to Forbes.

Louisiana’s job market is strong. Job openings number in the tens of thousands. Employers...

The Third Street property containing Squeaky Pete's and The Trademark event space has been sold to a group of investors for an undisclosed sum, according to documents with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office.

A Louisiana legislative committee sacked a bill that would have levied a tax on certain college football tickets to help pay for a passenger rail project between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. 

Georges Media Group, which publishes The Advocate and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and Baton Rouge announced Monday that it is launching a digital news service in northwest Louisiana, bringing some media competition to the region

There are now 39 businesses taking part in the MovEBR Small Business Video Library, an ongoing virtual networking campaign hosted by the city-parish. 

A handful of candidate campaigns and outside spending groups involved in this year’s race for governor have either already advertised on broadcast television and cable or they’re planning to jump onto traditional airwaves very soon. 

An extension of Louisiana’s film tax credit program passed through the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday.

Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week kicks off with a Town Square block party next Monday and builds to Friday’s pitch competition, when four companies vie for $100,000 in angel investment.