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Louisiana lands in the top 10 for business competitiveness

VOICE YOUR OPINION What is the single most important step Louisiana should take to develop the workforce needed to support major economic development projects? Vote here in today's poll. Louisiana ranks ninth nationally among the best states...

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How Mary Bird Perkins has stayed independent in a consolidating healthcare industry

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After council rejection, BJ’s seeks a path forward in Gonzales

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Harveston’s next phase is taking shape. Here’s what’s in the works

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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services receives $282K grant for pro bono work

Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Baton Rouge firm lands a $45.86M contract to build Louisiana levees

Economic Development

Louisiana’s data center surge is testing the limits of economic growth

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Energy

Four data centers are rising at once in Louisiana. The early economic gains are striking, but so is the scale of what comes next.

What’s next: Could this be No. 5?

This Lafayette company wants to send data centers out to sea

Louisiana Cat plans hiring, facility expansion amid industrial boom

Iberville Parish is floating its own version of Ascension’s RiverPlex MegaPark

Healthcare

Louisiana Blue names a new president and CEO

Lane to close labor and delivery unit as physicians move to Woman’s

Ochsner doubles operating rooms at The Grove as part of $50M expansion

Southern University team wins cancer care technology challenge

How Revolution Wellness is rethinking primary care in Ascension Parish

Real Estate

Ascension planners approve this 83-lot subdivision, but with a condition the developer opposes

St. George development taking shape with $20M in projected investment

New Orleans’ Forbidden Pizza is planning a Baton Rouge location

Who’s building and who’s buying in Greater Baton Rouge

St. George to review plans for a new Long Farm restaurant

Restaurants & Retail

New owners bring fresh flavor to Sammy’s former home

Supperclub is planning a renovation. Here’s what we know

Baton Rouge gets a slice of New York with Prince St. Pizza

Smalls Sliders is doubling in size. Here’s what comes next

This Baton Rouge restaurant is helping feed Hut 8’s data center crews

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Daily Report Poll

What is the single most important step Louisiana should take to develop the workforce needed to support major economic development projects?

Expand fast-track training for skilled trades

Offer more paid apprenticeships with employers

Recruit experienced workers from out of state

Strengthen high school pathways into technical careers

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