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Southeast Louisiana farmers, who were already in the middle of their traditional slow season, are now dealing with fallen trees, flooded fields and flattened crops as a result of Hurricane Ida. Some Baton Rouge-area growers may not be back in business until mid or late October.

With rental cars still in short supply, enterprising car owners are renting their vehicles out to travelers through Turo, an online carsharing marketplace, Axios reports. It could cause a shift in the rental car industry similar to what was seen when Airbnb took off. 

The fund Louisiana uses to pay benefits to unemployed workers falls short of federal standards for solvency, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation.

LSU construction management professors Yimin Zhu and Amirhosein Jafari are researching how new technology can be leveraged to create next-generation learning environments for architecture, engineering and construction engineering.

Lawmakers grilled Louisiana Department of Health officials about the botched nursing home evacuation during...

The morning of the Tigers’ meeting with Mississippi State a year ago, LSU released a statement saying star cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. would miss the game after becoming “acutely ill” overnight. His absence was glaring as the Bulldogs threw for an SEC record 623 yards in a 44-34 win against the Tigers.

While many employers are rethinking their need for office space in the COVID era, downsizing offices or closing them altogether, CSRS is expanding.

The spread of the delta variant has kept many of America’s office employees working from home and fueled a rise in surveillance technologies by employers.

In the latest shake-up to rock the rapidly changing local health care market, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and one of the largest oncology practices in Baton Rouge—Louisiana Hematology and Oncology Associates—have signed a letter of intent with Baton Rouge General’s Pennington Cancer Center to expand services to BRG’s Bluebonnet campus.

Natural gas prices have surged recently, but domestic producers haven’t yet ramped up production enough to meet the rising demand, an LSU expert says.