Thomas “Tom” Sawyer, who led the Baton Rouge General Hospital system as CEO for 16 years until 1997, died Sunday at the age ...

Louisiana collected more than $81 million in severance taxes during the quarter ending June 30, with oil and gas revenues nearly evenly split, The Center Square reports. Since Jan. 1, the state has ...

LSU head football coach Brian Kelly told a larger-than-usual Rotary Club of Baton Rouge audience Wednesday that the Tigers ...

As part of a broad strategic shift, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber is dropping the word “chamber” from its name.

The number of Americans filing for jobless aid fell for the sixth straight week, hitting the lowest level since mid-April. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ...

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern acknowledged Thursday that they were in merger talks that would create a single U.S railroad with rails stretching service from East to West Coasts. The Associated ...

A hospital specializing in complex breast cancer and reconstructive surgery has opened in Baton Rouge. Construction of the approximately 43,000-square-foot ReCenter Hospital, located on Mourning Dove ...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slid in June to the slowest pace since last September as mortgage rates remained elevated and the national median sales price rose to an all-time high of ...

AI may be hailed as the ultimate productivity tool, but for many small and midsize businesses, that promise has not been delivered, Fast Company writes.  While large companies with dedicated AI teams ...

Hershey, the maker of Reese’s, Whoppers, barkThins and other chocolate candies, said Wednesday that it will raise U.S. retail prices later this fall. In some cases, pack sizes will get smaller; in ...

Two of Baton Rouge’s public media outlets are bracing for funding cuts after Congress voted July 17 to eliminate $1.1 billion in support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—part of a broader ...

GBRIA members expect continued stability in production, capital expenditure and employment levels, at least in the short term ...