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Drilling requests and rig counts are hitting new highs in the state, WBRZ-TV reports.

Louisiana legislators have added St. George Fire Deputy Chief of Administration Dustin Yates and Baton Rouge attorney Andrew Murrell to the St. George Transition District. 

The Capital Area Transit System’s board will discuss “the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health” of CEO Bill Deville at today’s meeting, according to the agenda. 

Wholesale inflation in the U.S. shot up 10% last month from a year earlier—another sign that inflationary pressures remain intense at all levels of the economy.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to require all publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions.

Washington state-based Greenberry Industrial LLC plans to convert a shuttered Gulf Island Fabrication site near Jennings, closed in late 2020, into a plant that makes equipment for heavy industry, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Kayla Gibson, a senior at Liberty Magnet High School, was awarded $5,000 in seed funding at the Young Entrepreneurs Academy of Baton Rouge Community Pitch last week.

The Louisiana Press Association’s new lobbying team is facing a regular session that will...

The Louisiana chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business backs Gov. John Bel Edwards’ proposal to spend $550 million in one-time funding to shore up the unemployment insurance trust fund, director Dawn Starns McVea says. 

A public health emergency declaration in effect since March 2020 will end Wednesday in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards told state lawmakers in a wide-ranging speech on the first day of the 2022 regular legislative session.