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Louisiana’s top election official will give up his office at the end of his term in January. Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin issued a statement today announcing he will not seek reelection this fall.

Three LSU student businesses will compete against one another next week in a live...

Gayle Benson, businesswoman and owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, will serve as keynote speaker for the upcoming Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week. 

The new Baton Rouge professional hockey team has signed a three-year lease with the Raising Cane’s River Center, officials announced today. 

Baton Rouge-based Bluehenge Capital Partners has sold its portfolio company Iron Horse Tools LLC to Pelican Energy Partners of Houston, the companies announced today.

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Borrowing for small businesses was already constrained due to rising interest rates over the past year. 

Three new businesses are in the works for downtown—two bars for Third Street and a new restaurant on North Boulevard. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards opened this year’s regular legislative session—his last as governor—with calls for addressing what many lawmakers and business advocates call a crisis in the state’s property insurance market. 

Former LABI president Stephen Waguespack and two political action committees supporting him in the Louisiana governor's race will report raising more than $3 million during the past four weeks.