The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness plans to move some of its operations into a 70,000-square-foot space in the Bon Carré Business Center, making it the largest tenant in the property.
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The new owners of Mason’s Grill paid nearly $1.7 million for the popular Jefferson Highway restaurant.
The Biden administration’s proposed plan for offshore oil and gas leasing for the next five years has left fossil fuel advocates wanting for more and environmental groups hoping for less.
Here Today Gone Tomorrow, a thrift store that has called Burbank Drive its home for nearly 30 years, is closing its doors.
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Bollinger delivers 49th fast response cutter to Coast Guard
Essence's chief executive officer said she's been asked multiple times whether the Essence Festival of Culture is staying in New Orleans. On Thursday, Caroline Wanga ended any speculation, making the answer to that question very clear.
In a preliminary proposal that will take months to confirm, the Biden administration is floating the possibility of nixing oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico and the rest of the outer continental shelf for the next five years.
Tenants have been moving out of the property, in anticipation of sale
After decades in the restaurant business, the owners of Mason's Grill have decided it's time to step away from the popular restaurant.
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber will host its first ever Economic Inclusion Symposium, August 18, addressing one of the organization's goals for its current five-year plan.
Forte and Tablada, a Baton Rouge surveying and engineering firm, has acquired Boyd Holmes Engineering, a company that specializes in designing urban and rural bridges throughout Louisiana.
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University has received a $1 million donation to help build a chapel in a new, 75,000-square-foot building slated to open in December.
Consumer and business spending in East Baton Rouge Parish was up 14.5% in April when compared to the year before.
Work is underway on Baton Rouge's first Shake Shack. The burger chain with roots in the New York fine dining scene is set to open a freestanding restaurant in early 2023 at the Mall of Louisiana. The restaurant will be between Longhorn Steakhouse …
Six U.S. Navy 40 PB maritime combat vessels are headed to Ukraine as part of a $450 million military security package to help the country better protect its waterways and ports. The 40-foot-long patrol boats were built by Metal Shark's Acadiana sh…
Quarters, a restaurant and entertainment venue at the intersection of Coursey and Sherwood Forest boulevards, has closed.
Two staff members of the Law Library of Louisiana were recently elected as officers of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Waitr’s shareholders failed to approve a measure intended to raise the company’s depressed share price, putting the food delivery service app’s Nasdaq listing in jeopardy.
Lamar Advertising Company is no longer pursuing a $300 million initial public offering through a special subsidiary it created more than a year ago to buy a digitally focused advertising company.
Jada Gabriel goes grocery shopping for her family of four every two weeks. On her last trip, she noticed the price of butter had increased.
A former Regions Bank branch near the Interstate 10-Highland Road intersection has been purchased by Raising Cane’s for $2.1 million.
The Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association joined 26 other industry trade groups on Thursday in signing a letter that urges President Joe Biden to visit United States energy sites ahead of a planned trip to Saudi Arabia in July.
Since its founding as a community bank in 2006, Baton Rouge-based b1Bank has grown to become the largest bank by deposits headquartered in Louisiana.
In an attempt to right a wrong, Community Coffee may have inadvertently torpedoed a state tax break for its West Baton Rouge Parish plant after the company chose not to claim the exemption for years it didn’t hit promised job and payroll totals.
The oil giant Shell says it didn’t authorize a prominent Louisiana tax attorney to use his ties to legislative leaders to position the firm for a $3 million tax refund, adding that the company supported the governor’s veto of the maneuver.
Venture Global LNG has signed a pair of 20-year deals to sell liquefied natural gas to Chevron USA Inc.
A 76 Petroleum gas station is under construction at Airline Highway and Evangeline Street in north Baton Rouge. The nearly 3,900-square-foot store will include a small kitchen that will serve breakfast and lunch items, along with offering convenie…
The Five Guys restaurant at the North Gates of LSU has closed and the space is being marketed to potential tenants.
The head of a company considering building a renewable fuels plant in Port Allen said he anticipates a final investment decision will be made on the $800 million manufacturing facility by “end of summer-early fall."
A group headed by a Baton Rouge real estate agent has purchased The Bluffs golf course near St. Francisville for $4.5 million.
Genevieve Silverman is stepping down as president and CEO of Nexus Louisiana, the organization announced Monday.
The Commerce Building, a mixed-use property in downtown Baton Rouge, has been sold to the family of late auto dealer Price LeBlanc for nearly $24.7 million.
Southern Ag Center to host farmer's estate planning workshop June 28
When Lauren Jackson, a kindergarten teacher at a Baton Rouge charter school, began looking for a home in November, mortgage lenders pre-approved her for a $200,000 house. She wanted three bedrooms in the Baker or Zachary area, with a yard big enou…
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an offshore wind energy bill Tuesday that has received mixed reviews from proponents of the Gulf of Mexico’s nascent wind industry.
The head of a company considering building a renewable fuels plant in Port Allen said he anticipates a final investment decision will be made on the $800 million manufacturing facility by “end of summer-early fall."
Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC, the nation's largest dredging company, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a $1 million fine after pleading guilty a year ago to criminal charges of causing the spill of 160 barrels of oi…
A group headed by a Baton Rouge real estate agent has purchased The Bluffs golf course near St. Francisville for $4.5 million.
Genevieve Silverman is stepping down as president and CEO of Nexus Louisiana, the organization announced Monday.
The Commerce Building, a mixed-use property in downtown Baton Rouge, has been sold to the family of late auto dealer Price LeBlanc for nearly $24.7 million.
Every year, three months before hurricane season, nursing homes along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast are required to submit a stack of paperwork to state and local officials, detailing how and where they’ll evacuate their medically fragile residents in th…
Southern Ag Center to host farmer's estate planning workshop June 28
When Lauren Jackson, a kindergarten teacher at a Baton Rouge charter school, began looking for a home in November, mortgage lenders pre-approved her for a $200,000 house. She wanted three bedrooms in the Baker or Zachary area, with a yard big enou…
The signs of a spiraling property insurance crisis keep piling up.
Winnings at Louisiana’s state-regulated casinos were down 9.2% in May, as high gas prices and rising inflation caused all but a handful of properties to report drops in revenue.
‘At the mercy of the market’: How higher natural gas prices could hamper Louisiana’s chemical sector
When natural gas prices go up, Tom Yura notices.