Upgraded: The International Monetary Fund is upgrading the global economic outlook for this year and next because President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies have so far proved less damaging ...

After months of delays, Main Street Market says it’s finally reopening this fall. The 8,000-square-foot downtown marketplace closed for a major renovation in September 2023. At the time, BREADA, which ...

Less than two years into his first term, and with legislative assistance from a GOP supermajority, Gov. Jeff Landry is steering a sophisticated, multilayered reorganization of state government that’s ...

Construction will soon be underway on this planned ±37,000 SF Class A warehouse in the heart of Ascension Parish’s industrial ...

The U.S. Bowling Congress Open Championships delivered more than $125 million in economic impact to Baton Rouge during its ...

A Baton Rouge holding company has purchased 70 lots in the Delaune Estates community in Ascension Parish. Pavo Capital Inc., represented by Lee Foster, bought the lots from Lynn Levy Land Company LLC ...

As Louisiana braces for tighter Medicaid rules under federal legislation, Rep. Stephanie Berault, R-Slidell, says the state is better prepared than most to handle the shift, The Center Square writes.

The U.S. housing market just suffered its slowest spring season since 2012, as economic anxiety sidelined buyers despite falling mortgage rates and more homes on the market, Bloomberg writes.  The ...

As part of a new trade pact, the European Union has pledged to buy $750 billion worth of American oil, natural gas and nuclear fuel over three years—more than double its current annual U.S. energy ...

Reform: More than 150,000 voters will be affected when Louisiana officially ends recognition of the Independent Party this Friday. It’s all part of the state’s move to a closed party primary system ...

As major insurers retreat from disaster-prone regions in Louisiana, smaller companies are stepping in with help from a little-known ratings firm that’s now under fire, The Wall Street Journal writes.

Baton Rouge Mayor Sid Edwards has been selected for the ninth class of the Bloomberg Harvard Leadership Initiative.