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The Baton Rouge Health District today announced it is launching a workforce initiative aimed...

The Capital Region housing market is continuing to cool down, as closed sales dropped last month by nearly 40% compared to January 2022, reports the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors.

Local developer Mike Wampold looks at potential projects in the Baton Rouge market with an entrepreneurial perspective. 

The foundation that would be created in the wake of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana sale would have more than $3 billion in assets, Blue Cross officials say. 

Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson is retiring from his position after seven years, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced this afternoon.  

A set of new automatic tax cuts that Louisiana lawmakers said would occur only...

The Downtown Development District will cover half of the salary of a Baton Rouge Area Chamber employee who will work to fill empty downtown storefronts, DDD Executive Director Whitney Hoffman Sayal says. 

James Curtis, owner of downtown plant shop and design studio Outside Stimuli, says he has decided not to move forward with a bookstore on Florida Street. 

A new coalition of local government, nonprofit and business leaders was launched today in an effort to address violent crime in Baton Rouge. 

Jonas Fontenot, the new president and CEO of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, discusses his objectives for the facility.