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US oil executives warn global supply crunch may intensify
American oil executives are warning the Trump administration that the global energy crunch triggered by the Iran conflict could worsen as disruptions to shipping...
Venture Global green-lights $8.6B Louisiana LNG expansion
Venture Global is moving forward with an $8.6 billion expansion of its third liquefied natural gas export project in Louisiana, marking another major investment...
Roundup: Local Walmart remodeling / Consumer prices / Venture Global
Closing temporarily: The Walmart Neighborhood Market on Airline Highway in Prairieville will temporarily close starting April 6 for a four-week remodel. The pharmacy and...
How a small Baton Rouge company is beating big pharma at its own game
Passersby of SOLA Pharmaceuticals’ Highlandia Drive offices likely have no idea that the modest complex is home to the Capital City’s only FDA-approved pharmaceutical...
‘LaPolitics’: A breakdown of the bills Gov. Landry is backing this session
Gov. Jeff Landry kicked off this year's regular session Monday with a speech that spanned nearly an hour and closed with a call to...
Essential Credit Union to open full-service Towne Center branch and tag office
Essential Credit Union will open its new full-service Towne Center branch and Essential Tag and Title Company later this month, marking the latest expansion...
The AI boom is forcing a major US energy grid expansion
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and data centers is driving what could become one of the largest expansions of the U.S. electric grid...
Gulf lease sale draws $47M in bids
The federal government’s second offshore oil and gas lease auction in the Gulf since the 2024 presidential election generated nearly $47 million in high...
Why the elevator pitch is losing its lift
The elevator pitch was built for speed, not for how careers actually work today, Inc. Magazine writes.
The technique of the elevator pitch is so...
Roundup: Caesars / Sorrento Primary School / Last night’s weather
$7B offer: Billionaire Tilman Fertitta is in talks to buy Caesars Entertainment for roughly $7 billion after he topped a competing offer from billionaire...
Eliminate Louisiana’s income tax? Not so fast
Gov. Jeff Landry has been vocal about his desire to eliminate the state income tax since he took office in January 2024, but key...
Syngenta to cease production of toxic herbicide at St. Gabriel facility
Multinational agriculture technology company Syngenta announced earlier this month that it will cease global production of the herbicide paraquat by the end of June,...
Baton Rouge emerges as a key audience driver for local sports network
The Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network is increasingly looking to Baton Rouge as both a growing audience base and a potential hub for...
These are the finalists for Nexus Louisiana’s DevDays competition
Computer science and engineering students from four Louisiana universities will compete for $10,000 in cash prizes during Nexus Louisiana's first DevDays competition of the...
Best of 225 voting now open through April 8
Voting is underway for 225 magazine’s 2026 Best of 225 Awards, giving residents across the region the chance to weigh in on their favorite...
The rise of ‘workslop’: When AI makes more work for everyone
A new term is gaining traction in workplaces grappling with the rapid adoption of generative AI: “workslop.”
The phrase describes low-effort, AI-generated work that appears...
Roundup: Inflation watch / Deepfake crackdown / Louisiana plant delayed
Price pressures: Inflation stayed stubbornly elevated last month as gas prices rose in a snapshot of what consumer prices looked like before the U.S.-Israeli...
Meet the man behind Baton Rouge’s car wash empire
Benny Alford still shows up to work every day.
At 80, the founder of Benny’s Car Wash keeps an open door at the company’s corporate...
Could Rapides Parish be home to Louisiana’s next big data center project?
Public records and local economic development activity suggest that Applied Digital, a digital infrastructure developer based in Dallas, is positioning a site in Rapides...
New director tapped for LSU’s FOODii program
Amogh Ambardekar has been selected as the new director of LSU’s FOODii incubator.
That’s according to Achyut Adhikari, FOODii’s interim director, who tells Daily Report...
