The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is considering exchanging its traditional chamber of commerce model to become an economic ...

Heading into the recent special session on taxation, those who make, track or influence legislative votes knew the big ...

Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay. On Nov. 15, a federal judge in ...

As labor market risks have somewhat decreased, Federal Reserve officials are maintaining broad support for a careful approach to future rate cuts, minutes from their latest policy meeting showed.

On Dec. 7, St. George voters will decide whether to transfer control of the revenue from the 2% sales tax collected in the new city from East Baton Rouge Parish to St. George’s government. The tax ...

The owner and president of Servpro of East Baton Rouge and Ascension Parish recently purchased a 3-acre lot in the Kodiak Business Park along Baringer Foreman Road to be the site of the company’s ...

Four proposed constitutional amendments appear on the Dec. 7 ballot, for which early voting is underway, the USA Today Network reports.  The proposed amendments range from expanding the Judiciary ...

A Senate subcommittee report released Tuesday shows that from 2018 to 2023 five major U.S. airlines collected a combined $12.4 billion in fees from passengers wanting to select seats or have more ...

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. He ...

As nearly one-fifth of office space across the country sits empty thanks to a record-high vacancy rate that’s expected to keep growing, cities across the nation are taking steps to make it easier to ...