Shell Chemical, in Ascension Parish, brought home the 2024 Lantern Award for manufacturing excellence from Louisiana Economic ...

America’s employers added a surprisingly strong 254,000 jobs in September, the latest evidence that the U.S. labor market is still solid enough to support steady hiring and a growing economy. Last ...

Suspended: Ports impacted by this week’s strike began reopening late on Thursday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half ...

Jenee Esquivel has relaunched her brick-and-mortar brand, Moxi Boutique, as Moxi the Label, an online business with a focus on handmade charm necklaces and limited women’s apparel. Esquivel joins a ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s supporters are getting energized about the 2026 reelection cycle following a Monday night fundraiser that yielded more than $350,000 for the Baton Rouge physician’s campaign.

The Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources announced Tuesday that it was directing $249 million for a program aimed to enhance the state’s energy security in the face of extreme weather ...

Nexus Louisiana is working toward selecting a new president and CEO in January.  At its first meeting since July, the ...

A new ingredient-centric Mexican restaurant is slated to open in Baton Rouge in November.  William Mealer, the owner of La Carreta Mid City, is developing Veracruz, a new Mexican restaurant in the ...

Children with autism, along with their families, will soon be able to access support in Baker through Rise Behavioral Services.  Rise, which operates a center in Zachary that provides applied behavior ...

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week but remains at a healthy level. The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for jobless claims rose by 6 ...

Mortgage rates slightly increased last week, but it was enough to take a little heat out of what had been a briefly red-hot refinance market. That caused total mortgage application volume to fall 1.3% ...

Orbital Engineering Inc. is expanding its Capital Region operations with the purchase of a multitenant garden office building at the corner of Lake Sherwood Avenue North and American Way. The company ...