Baton Rouge bookstore Red Stick Reads has a new chapter—and a much bigger space, 225 writes.  The independent shop recently reopened at 3829 Government St., nearly doubling its square footage and ...

Initial unemployment insurance claims in Louisiana decreased nearly 6% for the week ending May 10 as compared to the previous week.  There were 1,613 initial claims filed last week—a drop from the ...

Keli Zinn’s trailblazing journey began on a boys’ baseball team in rural West Virginia and led her to the upper ranks of college athletics leadership.  As the first girl in her county to play high ...

Louisiana lawmakers grappled with high-stakes legislation this week, spotlighting sharp divides over carbon capture taxes, social media safeguards for children, tax incentives, and sweeping tort ...

The Greater Baton Rouge housing market saw an increase in both pending sales and new listings in April, marking the second ...

U.S. House Republicans failed Friday to push their big package of tax breaks and spending cuts through the Budget Committee after a handful of conservatives joined all Democrats in a stunning vote ...

The proposed plans for a subdivision with more than 230 homes on a roughly 90-acre tract along Comite Drive in Baker will be reviewed at Monday’s Planning Commission meeting. Civil engineer Lance ...

A pair of Louisiana lawmakers say they will not continue to pursue legislation that would exempt college athletes’ name, image and likeness compensation from state income taxes as legislators work to ...

Nexus Louisiana is starting the search for a new home base, sending out requests for proposals to developers and landlords ...

An effort is underway to reshape how early childhood education is delivered in Baton Rouge, with local leaders recommending ...

Zinn declined to speculate on when the arena’s potential developer, whose identity is still under wraps, might submit its ...

Charter Communications has offered to acquire Cox Communications, a $34.5 billion merger that would combine two of the top three cable companies in the U.S. Cox is the third-largest cable television ...