Las Vegas casino giant Caesars Entertainment said it has reached an agreement to sell the Belle of Baton Rouge riverboat casino to CQ Holding Company Inc., based in East St. Louis, Illinois.
The Louisiana Economic Development department expects to host an online career fair in mid-December alongside nine companies with operations in the state to fill 150 open jobs in the technology industry.
Entrepreneurs interested in competing for $50,000 from local investors can pitch their technology startup idea during the Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week in January.
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Houston-based LyondellBasell bought a 50% stake in three units inside South African business Sasol Ltd.'s Lake Charles petrochemical complex for $2 billion in a deal that closed recently.
More details of the Paycheck Protection Program were released late Tuesday night by the U.S. Small Business Administration after a judge ruled the records should be public.
Rock Paper Taco, which got its start as a food truck in 2018, is set to open a brick and mortar location at LSU’s North Gates in early 2021.
After years of being on the market, the Bon Carré Business Center has been sold to a South Carolina-based company, which plans on working with community leaders in redeveloping the property.
New Orleans-based Key Real Estate has a deal to buy a 4-acre site in the Rouzan mixed-use development for $7 million to build a luxury apartment complex in the spring.
The Baton Rouge area added 5,900 jobs from September to October as business continues to recover during the coronavirus pandemic, but the region still had 18,600 fewer jobs than it did a year ago.
A 20.1-acre tract off Innovation Park Drive has been sold for nearly $1.2 million to a developer who plans to build an 86-lot subdivision on the site.
Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP is seeking to replace an existing offshore natural gas platform and build a crude oil export project in the Gulf of Mexico 99 miles offshore from Cameron Parish in southwest Louisiana.
An unexpected spike in unemployment claims in Louisiana appears to be a combination of a large number of unemployed workers moving from one program to another and criminals trying to game the system for jobless benefits, a state official said Monday.
An office building on South Sherwood Forest Boulevard has been sold to a Hammond investor for nearly $2 million.
Workers inside a temporary medical marijuana growing operation in Baker are preparing hundreds of plants each month that are being used to manufacture cannabis products for patients across the state while a major expansion is under construction.
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Residents across Louisiana have received letters tied to fake unemployment claims, approvals for benefits and even received debit cards loaded with cash benefits for people they don't know who are using their home address as the state sorts throug…
Lines formed for capacity limits on businesses rather than the usual wait for doorbuster deals.
Over the next three years, there could be enough solar-generated electricity in Louisiana to power 60,000 homes in a state rich with oil and gas and crisscrossed with pipelines.
Louisiana has halted payments on tens of thousands of new unemployment claims filed after Nov. 5 as it weeds through potentially fraudulent claims.
Consumer and business spending in East Baton Rouge Parish rose by 6.4% in September when compared to the year before, but remains below 2019 for the first nine months of the year.
One week after an unexpected and mysterious surge in unemployment claims in Louisiana, new jobless applications plummeted without explanation in the latest U.S. Department of Labor data released on Wednesday.
Jeff Kleinpeter, the former head of Kleinpeter Farms Dairy, has teamed up with Mike Collins to buy WaterScape Pools, which builds pools and outdoor kitchens.
Business owners started taking steps to trim back the number of customers Tuesday afternoon after Gov. John Bel Edwards said he was rolling the state back to limited Phase 2 coronavirus restrictions.
Social equity and inclusion are overarching themes in a task force report with recommendations ranging from creation of new positions within state government to reforming existing economic incentive programs to include more small businesses.
A demolition of the Hotel Lincoln showed up on Tuesday’s East Baton Rouge Metro Council meeting, but officials said plans are still underway to restore the historic property and agenda item is being removed.
New unemployment claims in Louisiana shot up for an unknown reason led by real estate, rental and leasing services for the week ending Nov. 14, Louisiana Workforce Commission data released Monday showed.
A nearly 13-acre site off Old Jefferson Highway near Parkview Baptist Church has been sold to local developers, who plan to build a 52-lot infill subdivision on the property.
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The coronavirus pandemic is making the 2020 holiday shopping season look quite different than previous years.
Black Friday shopping will look different in South Louisiana this year. Chalk it up to the coronavirus pandemic.
Baton Rouge’s three riverboat casinos combined saw a modest drop in winnings in October when compared to the year before, but that was good enough to be the best performance of any of the state’s gambling markets.
Significant jumps in the number of homes sold in Ascension and Livingston parishes helped the Baton Rouge housing market post its fifth consecutive month of double-digit annual percentage gains in house sales.
Louisiana saw incremental job gains between September and October but remains 5.6% down over the year due to the economic recession spurred by restrictions tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dozens of retailers in Baton Rouge sold more than 20,000 products across the country and world through an eBay 'retail revival' program that totaled $1.5 million in sales since September 2019 but the program was announced in May 2019.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded a $2.4 million grant to spur business recovery in Louisiana in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of homes sold in metro Baton Rouge was 23.9% higher in October than the year before, continuing a five-month hot streak triggered by low interest rates and rebound from an early coronavirus-related slump.
Businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but not typically eligible for state economic incentive programs could start getting tax breaks until 2023.
The number of homes sold in metro Baton Rouge was 23.9% higher in October than the year before, continuing a five-month hot streak triggered by low interest rates and rebound from an early coronavirus-related slump.
Businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but not typically eligible for state economic incentive programs could start getting tax breaks until 2023.
Venture Global LNG has quietly pushed back the timeline for when the company would make its final investment decision on its second liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana.
It's the first increase in five weeks.
In something akin to a secret Santa, Louisiana announced with little fanfare that consumers making purchases on Friday and Saturday won’t have to pay the state’s 4.45% sales taxes.
General Informatics, a Baton Rouge-based technology company, has sold a majority stake to Dallas-based private equity firm Rosewood Private Investments.
Louisiana's energy sector growth is likely to be stifled even as the economy recovers from the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Carnival Cruise Lines on Wednesday extended the suspension of its cruise ship sailings through February for its New Orleans embarkations and through January for all of its U.S. sailings as part of restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus.
After several years of construction and weathering two hurricanes, South Africa-based energy and chemical company Sasol Ltd. has completed its $12.8 billion petrochemical complex in Lake Charles.
D.R. Horton has bought 75 lots in the Fountain View Estates Subdivision in Zachary for $3.3 million.
Residents in north Baton Rouge are one step closer to more access to a preventive mental and physical health center as construction crews working to renovate a former 76,000-square-foot medical center at Howell Place near the Baton Rouge Metropoli…
A proposal by Grön Fuels LLC to build a $1.2 billion renewable diesel manufacturing facility on Port of Baton Rouge land includes a variety of environmentally friendly options that fit in with Gov. John Bel Edwards’ plans to reduce the state’s emi…