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Now that medical marijuana is available to patients in Louisiana, employers in the industrial sector face a potential balancing act between workplace safety and workers' disability rights.
The Mississippi River is about to get a little more crowded.
An 111,000-square-foot distribution center on a 34-acre site is being proposed in Baton Rouge by an Atlanta-based developer that has built projects for corporations that include three warehouses this year for Amazon.com and also work for Mercedes-…
Baton Rouge Metro Council unanimously approved an economic incentive agreement with a Plano-based mental health provider for $1.4 million as a grant in exchange for a new niche psychiatric hospital in the parish.
Baton Rouge-based tech startup Providence Photonics has raised $2 million from a Washington D.C. defense industry business to further develop infrared technology for detecting methane leaks.
The former CJ Brown Realtors offices on Airline Highway have been sold to a local software company for nearly $1.3 million.
New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees will don a disguise and go to work as a dishwasher at a Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux featured on the season premiere of the CBS reality show “Undercover Boss” next month.
Mississippi-based BancorpSouth has purchased a building on Airline Highway that had been leased by Capital One — the second acquisition BancorpSouth has made in Baton Rouge in the past two weeks.
The nine-parish Baton Rouge area is projected to gain 4,900 jobs next year, a 1.2% growth rate, an annual forecast from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber shows.
Ann Marie Marmande, a longtime LSU fundraiser, has been named president of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation.
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and the NeuroMedical Center announced a partnership Wednesday that will lead to establishing a 20-bed neuro intensive care unit.
Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar is making a slight change to its name, a move that company officials said better reflects what makes the Baton Rouge-based chain different from other sports bars.
Winnings by casinos in the Baton Rouge market were down by 1.1% in October from a year ago, as a big drop in business at the Belle of Baton Rouge wiped out gains by the city’s two other riverboats.
Mosaic Co. is restarting its idled fertilizer production facilities in St. James Parish and officials hope they will be fully operational by Monday.
A local marine service business has expanded its downtown offices and plans to start building a private dock in early 2020.
A Dallas development firm wants to demolish the notorious Brandywine condominiums and build a 280-unit apartment complex on the site near North Sherwood Forest and South Choctaw drives.
Three local employees of a national real estate firm got a big early Christmas present on Saturday, when the owner of the business split $10 million in bonuses among his 198 employees.
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New Orleans-based water tech startup Aquaculture Systems opened a laboratory several years ago inside LSU's Innovation Park in Baton Rouge. Now the company has relocated its operations to the Capital City as it expands.
A local subsidiary of Dallas-area mental health provider Oceans Behavioral Hospital is pursuing $1.4 million from East Baton Rouge Parish to help open a new specialty hospital.
The local developers of the Harveston community near Nicholson Drive and Bluebonnet Boulevard want to set up an economic development district to help finance a mixed-use development phase of the project.
Stirling Properties has combined its two Baton Rouge locations into one central office on United Plaza Boulevard.
New Orleans-based Crescent Bank and Trust is relocating a Virginia call center to Texas and moving 30 jobs that support its operations from south Louisiana.
Restaurant food delivery company Waitr Holdings Inc. has been told by the Nasdaq stock exchange that the company's stock faces possible delisting because its price has been below $1 per share for 30 consecutive business days.
Houston-based Cameron LNG's export facility in southwest Louisiana, which failed to report a liquefied natural gas leak just one day after it began production, won't be required to pay a fine after it settled with federal regulators.
A winning scratch-off ticket worth $100,000 was sold at a Baton Rouge convenience store.
Several products sold at Trader Joe's stores across the U.S. have been recalled due to listeria fears.
Louisiana has greatest shortfall in reserves necessary to survive recession, according to new report
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — After a couple years of robust tax collections, many states across the U.S. are better prepared than ever to weather a potential recession, according to a report released Monday that examines states’ savings.
Business First Bank has officially changed its name to b1Bank, a move that reflects how the business has informally referred to itself for more than a decade.
Cheniere Energy is nudging federal regulators to allow the company to put back online one of two storage tanks that had leaked last year at its Cameron Parish LNG export terminal.
Contractor Turner Industries is yet another local business seeking to be annexed into the city of Baton Rouge to avoid becoming part of the new city of St. George — the total assessed value of which hit $16 million this week.
Baton Rouge-based Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System expects to make some capital investments in the Mississippi hospital it acquired this year.
The Wyndham Garden Baton Rouge hotel at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Bluebonnet Boulevard will be rebranded.
Former LSU football Coach Les Miles sold a condominium near campus for just under $300,000.
Contractor Turner Industries is yet another local business seeking to be annexed into the city of Baton Rouge to avoid becoming part of the new city of St. George — the total assessed value of which hit $16 million this week.
Baton Rouge-based Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System expects to make some capital investments in the Mississippi hospital it acquired this year.
Judy Perry Martinez was a commercial litigator with an office overlooking much of downtown New Orleans, but she found herself one day in the mid-1990s sitting in her Saab outside a trailer park.
The Wyndham Garden Baton Rouge hotel at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Bluebonnet Boulevard will be rebranded.
Former LSU football Coach Les Miles sold a condominium near campus for just under $300,000.
Mississippi-based BancorpSouth has purchased a former MidSouth Bank branch on Siegen Lane for $2.255 million.
Three businesses near LSU's campus have closed their doors within a one-week span. And VooDoo BBQ & Grill located on Nicholson Drive is the latest.
After the success of The Advocate’s first Economic Outlook Summit, the event is coming back in January in a bigger venue.
Over the past decade, many St. John the Baptist Parish residents found a reason to leave.
The trade war between the U.S. and China is forcing many Louisiana farmers to question whether they’ll continue to grow soybeans next year as the federal aid package keeping them afloat by offsetting their losses isn’t covering all their costs.
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