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There’s a trope that lawyers make poor businesspeople. Risk-averse. Narrow. Gradual. Some studies lend...

The Louisiana Senate today will take up a proposal to put on the ballot a constitutional amendment that would require local approval and job creation or retention when granting property tax exemptions for manufacturing projects. 

In the fifth installment of the 2022 Louisiana Survey, released Tuesday, residents say the most common barrier to having broadband internet is the cost of the service.

Insure Health LLC, a Baton Rouge-based health insurance agency whose subsidiary is Pride Life LLC, bought the Alpha Building on Goodwood Boulevard for $1.9 million on Tuesday.

Yet most U.S. oil businesses are not eager to capitalize on this moment by pumping more oil, The New York Times reports.  

For the city and parish combined, recurring sales and use tax collections totaled roughly...

Louisiana lawmakers advanced a proposal Tuesday that would give full statewide licensure to plumbers currently restricted to working in a certain parish or local jurisdiction. 

The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation ranks Louisiana’s unemployment insurance tax system fifth best in...

Rising global temperatures could damage crop production, but farmers also need domestic oil and...

Louisiana's Legislature is debating a bill that would require mobile sports betting operators to...