Business News

There is a mystery afoot in the current job market: Eager candidates apply for a job, and then hear nothing, but the position’s listing stays online for months afterward.

Pending home sales dropped 69.1% year over year in Baton Rouge in February, the biggest drop of any metro area in the country, according to a new analysis from Redfin.

Named an Innovation Corps Hub, LSU is working with its faculty to increase the commercialization of their research.

Entergy is trying to replace about 60 interstate lights in Baton Rouge and is ready to schedule the work, but supply chain issues are delaying the fixtures, a utility spokesperson says. 

Unemployment in Baton Rouge and across the state ticked up in January from December but was still lower than in January 2022.

Performance Contractors Inc. has been named Contractor of the Year by Associated Builders and Contractors.

A piece of the 2017 tax law that went into effect this year is leaving small, research-intensive businesses with IRS bills they can’t pay, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

BRAF membership reached a five-year high of nearly 500 last year, CEO and President Chris Meyer told donors and members at its annual meeting Thursday night. 

An Orleans Parish judge lifted an injunction in the Folgers Coffee Co. tax exemption...

ExxonMobil has partnered with the Louisiana Stormwater Coalition to fund three new anti-blight initiatives—including a new minigrant program—in north Baton Rouge, the organizations announced Thursday.