Roughly five years after JCPenney filed for bankruptcy, a Boston private equity firm has agreed to buy 119 JCPenney stores, ...

Widespread financial mismanagement, waste and oversight failures across Louisiana state and local agencies led to nearly $1 billion in questionable costs last year, The Center Square reports.  A ...

Plans are moving forward for a new Panda Express in a rapidly growing area of Baton Rouge. A $2.4 million building permit was issued earlier this month for the restaurant, which will be on West… ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked higher last month in a sign that President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs are starting to lift prices for many goods. Prices rose 2.6% in ...

As tech giants race to power artificial intelligence, the U.S. is seeing a surge in supersized data centers—and Louisiana is at the heart of it, Fast Company reports.  Meta’s Hyperion campus in north ...

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits inched up modestly last week as businesses continue to retain staff despite economic uncertainty surrounding U.S. trade policy. The Labor Department ...

The White House announced on Wednesday that the U.S. is suspending its “de minimis” exemption, which allowed low-value commercial shipments to be shipped to the country without facing tariffs, Reuters ...

As AI advances fuel a rapid boom in U.S. data center construction, utilities and tech giants are sparring over who should pay for the enormous power demands, The Wall Street Journal writes.  Companies ...

A vacant industrial warehouse and office property in Walker has been sold, with the new owner planning to bring in a tenant ...

D’s Garden Center, a plant nursery on Pecue Lane, is going out of business. The garden center announced the closure on social ...

Great River Industries is changing its name and rebranding to TankWorx + Construction Services effective immediately, ...

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