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BCP makes ‘significant investment’ in Metairie-based Gray Casualty & Surety
A group of investors led by Bernhard Capital Partners Management has entered into an agreement to make a “significant investment” in The Gray Casualty...
COVID-19 reshapes Baton Rouge fitness experience
As COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease, local gyms are reopening to a markedly changed fitness world.
IRS expected to push filing deadline to May 15
The IRS is expected to push back the country’s tax-filing deadline to May 15, according to two people familiar with the decision, as the...
PPP deadline extension moving through Congress
The House passed a bill extending the deadline for applying for a Paycheck Protection Program loan to May 31, sending the legislation to the...
Roundup: Zoning meeting canceled / Lease sale / The Sanctuary
Rain check: Due to anticipated inclement weather, the Metro Council Zoning meeting scheduled for this afternoon has been canceled. Agenda items, including the controversial...
‘USA Today’: LSU administrator did little to punish sexual misconduct on campus
For years, the LSU administrator in charge of doling out punishments to rapists, stalkers and abusers regularly chose to issue the lowest possible sanctions,...
Metro Council to reconsider Millennial Park rezoning request
Two months after his rezoning request was defeated, Millennial Park developer Cameron Jackson will go before the Metro Council Zoning Committee on Wednesday and...
Allstate cutting auto insurance rates for Louisiana drivers
With fewer drivers on the road amid the pandemic, Allstate is expected to drop its auto insurance rates by an average of 3%, and by as much as 7% for some customers.
LWC website down as agency updates for American Rescue Plan Act
The Louisiana Workforce Commission says its website is currently down and has been for the past two days so technicians can program and test...
Roundup: A year with COVID-19 / Hazing legislation / VENYU speaker series
Looking back: With more than a half-million vaccinated against COVID-19 in Louisiana as of Monday, the state entered its second year of battling the...
Circle Bowl closing after 62 years
Baton Rouge bowling alley Circle Bowl will close April 1 after six decades in business, the business announced today.
“Shutting the doors on this iconic...
Gas tax will be top business priority when Legislature convenes in April
When the Legislature convenes April 12, a Baton Rouge-based coalition determined to invest in Louisiana’s crumbling roads and bridges will once again push for...
Matador Vodka grows distribution in hopes, aims to become ‘Tito’s of Louisiana’
Bobbie Johnson wants Matador Vodka to be Louisiana’s vodka.
He started Matador Vodka in 2018, becoming the state’s first Black-owned sugarcane vodka company. Ask Johnson...
Roundup: Economic hope / Boys & Girls Club / OMV warning
Reaping rewards: The 21st-century economy has been a two-decade series of punches in the gut. A mild recession was followed by a weak recovery...
US air travel rises to highest levels since pandemic hit
Across the U.S., air travel is recovering more quickly from the depths of the pandemic, and it is showing up in longer airport security...
Sources: LSU scandal chilling search for new university president
While LSU continues to battle the fallout from a recent national report detailing the university’s mishandling of Title IX violations and sexual assault allegations, the LSU Board of Supervisors continues its search for a new president
The Iron Fork marks latest tenant to fill old Calendar’s space
A restaurant, meat market and bar called The Iron Fork is moving into a 3,771-square-foot suite in the Beau De Chene Shopping Center on Perkins Road.
Pandemic stresses already-challenged Louisiana seafood industry
The limitations placed on dining, workplaces and businesses to curb the spread of the coronavirus are just the latest in a string of hard...
Rock Paper Taco moving into former Shrimp Basket site on Perkins
Rock Paper Taco plans to open a second brick-and-mortar location in the former Shrimp Basket space on Perkins Road.
The 4,160-square-foot building—located in the Perkins...
Developers buy commercial property in Shoe Creek
Developers are planning to build a commercial development with retail, office and medical space in Central, on a 5.7-acre tract in front of the Settlement at Shoe Creek.
