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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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