Business News

Baton Rouge-based BBQGuys and Velocity Acquisition Corp. today announced they have agreed to terminate their planned merger due to the impact of global supply chain issues on BBQGuys’ business. 

Work is underway on the mixed-use portion of Harveston, the traditional neighborhood development at Nicholson Drive and Bluebonnet Boulevard, developer Mike Wampold says.

The 2020 holiday season saw a huge drop in travel, especially at usually busy airports. But as COVID-19 numbers drop and travel picks back up, the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport should edge closer to pre-pandemic travel numbers.

The nation's commercial casinos took home nearly $14 billion in third-quarter revenue this year, marking the industry's best quarter ever, and pushing U.S. casino revenue past the total for all of 2020, according to figures released Tuesday.

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A new fitness and entertainment franchise called Crunch Baton Rouge is opening on Airline Highway in the Hammond Aire Plaza shopping center next month.

A simmering within the Republican Party of Louisiana leadership boiled over today when party Secretary Mike Bayham accused Chairman Louis Gurvich of trying to manipulate the next intraparty election to remain in power.

Some of the practices the legal profession adopted to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 may continue to be common after the pandemic is over, attorneys say.

Tourism in downtown Baton Rouge continues to be on the upswing, according to Karron Alford, director of marketing and technology for Visit Baton Rouge, who presented an update at this morning’s Downtown Development District meeting.

Anyone who’s shopped for a car this year knows that new ones are hard...