Louisiana tax collections from online sales eclipsed $1 billion in November, just over two years after the state established a commission to tax remote sellers.
An LSU professor who sued a man for defamation for reporting him both to the police and the university claiming he was raped by the professor has agreed to settle with the defendant. The alleged victim claims the lawsuit was retaliatory.
The Capital Region’s unemployment rate is at a record-low 2.6%, while the Baton Rouge area is 0.5% away from fully recovering the pandemic jobs losses, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber reports.
Georgia company Marc 1 Holdings LLC has purchased the vacant Chase Bank branch on the corner of Florida Boulevard and North Sherwood Forest Drive for $900,000, according to documents filed with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office.
Top executives in much of the world are preparing for an economic downturn that is shorter and milder than usual, so they are focused on weathering the slowdown without widespread job cuts, a new survey finds.
Baton Rouge-based Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Opelousas General Health Center announced a partnership this week to expand and enhance cancer care in Acadiana.