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Kansas City Southern has decided that a $31 billion bid from Canadian Pacific is the best of two offers on the table to buy the railroad, throwing another obstacle into the possibility of a passenger rail between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

COVID-19 hospitalizations have been trending downward in the Baton Rouge area for the past couple of weeks, possibly indicating that the fourth wave and spread of the Delta variant may be diminishing.

Storms are becoming more severe, meaning Louisiana may need to harden road shoulders and embankments more than it has in response to prior hurricanes, a state Department of Transportation and Development spokesperson says. 

Nearly half of U.S. offshore oil production remains out of service two weeks after...

Staring down a pandemic, labor challenges, food supply shortages and a flood was more than enough drama to test the patience of Mestizo’s Jim Urdiales. 

LSU’s Sept. 4 season opener against UCLA might have been a disappointment for Tiger fans. But United Airlines’ nonstop service from the Baton Rouge Metro Airport to LAX was a winner.

President Joe Biden’s declaration that companies with more than 100 employees must ensure their workers are vaccinated against, or test negative for, COVID-19 could relieve employers of the burden of deciding whether to impose that mandate themselves. 

Plans to build Shoot Point Blank, a firearms retail store and shooting range with locations in several states, are going forward after a Kentucky-based company bought property at the Greens at Millerville for $800,000. 

The Conservative Louisiana political action committee, which supports Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, returned...

Several hard-hit industries including restaurants, live-events businesses and gyms are renewing calls for Congress...