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Spotlight on design: Ochsner Health and Elite Training Academy
Spearheaded by longtime LSU athletics leader Greg Stringfellow, Elite Training Academy mirrors the training environments of top college programs, providing athletes of all levels...
Roundup: Pollen capital / Google’s $32B deal / Detained in Louisiana
Rare air: Baton Rouge has been named as one of America’s 20 pollen capitals for 2025. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America released...
Is the US economy heading toward ‘stagflation’?
When Federal Reserve officials last met in late January, things looked pretty good: Hiring was solid. The economy had just grown at a solid...
Local tax preparer held in contempt for violating federal injunction
A Baton Rouge federal court is holding Whylithia Robinson, a Capital Region tax preparer, in contempt for violating a permanent injunction that prohibited her...
A new senior health care facility for Baton Rouge is now a step closer
A $14 million building permit was issued last week for a senior health care facility on Scenic Highway near the Lotus Village senior living...
Roundup: Economic concerns / Entergy’s Phillip May / Retail sales
Demand softening: The leaders of companies that serve everyone from penny-pinching grocery shoppers to first-class travelers are seeing cracks in demand. On top of...
BRAF will relocate to this downtown space late this summer
The Baton Rouge Area Foundation announced Monday that it will move to a new location late this summer.
BRAF has outgrown its current office space...
Coffee shop chain’s first Louisiana location heads to Planning Commission
A plan to open Louisiana’s first Dutch Bros Coffee location, on West Lee Drive, is one of several items on tonight’s Planning Commission meeting...
Louisiana’s congressional map will go to the US Supreme Court next week
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments starting next Monday over the yearslong battle to draw a new congressional map for Louisiana, The Center...
How much will tariffs drive up the cost of a new home?
Shopping for a new home? Ready to renovate your kitchen or install a new deck? You’ll be paying more to do so.
The Trump administration’s...
Here’s when LSU’s new arena plans are expected to be submitted for approval
The potential developer of LSU’s new $400 million arena is expected to submit its development plans to the LSU Board of Supervisors and the...
‘LaPolitics’: Kennedy pushing Trump on debt limit
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized U.S. Sen. John Kennedy to take the lead in convincing President Donald Trump to develop a strategy...
There’s a new owner of this Corporate Boulevard office building
A three-story office building on Corporate Boulevard near Park Plaza Drive has been sold.
5551 Corporate LLC purchased the property from River Regional Properties III...
Here’s when the Fed is looking to cut interest rates again
The Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates steady through the first two quarters of the year before considering the first rate reductions...
A timeline of Trump’s current trade war
Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad—all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate...
Roundup: From Guantanamo to Louisiana / Tulane University / Renaming the Gulf
Moved to Louisiana: U.S. authorities have removed immigrants from detention facilities at the Guantanamo Bay naval base as a federal court in Washington weighs...
This local brewery is expanding to Nebraska
Baton Rouge’s Rally Cap Brewing Company is opening a satellite taproom in Omaha, Nebraska.
The taproom, slated to open in the first quarter of 2026,...
Roundup: National unemployment / Challenging Amendment 2 / Market nears correction
Slight decline: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, indicating the U.S. labor market remains healthy. U.S. jobless claims...
Nexus will host a new tech event to replace BREW
Nexus Louisiana announced a new tech competition set for this summer that will replace the longstanding Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week, or BREW, as the...
Ochsner is offering a new treatment for prostate cancer in Baton Rouge
Metastatic prostate cancer patients in the Capital Region now have a new treatment option at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Baton Rouge.
Pluvicto is...
