Public Service Commissioner Jean Paul Coussan will be the guest speaker at the Press Club of Baton Rouge on Monday. He will talk about demystifying the PSC, Meta’s data center project in Richland ...

The city of St. George will officially take over its own public works operation on Saturday, marking a milestone for the city ...

The world’s clean energy transition has a hidden energy hog: the industrial gas sector, Bloomberg writes.  Its factories quietly burn through more electricity than Google or Shell—fueling everything ...

A four-story apartment building for seniors is set to rise within the Cypress at Ardendale development, marking the next step in the ongoing transformation of north Baton Rouge. A $13 million b… ...

A massive rust-colored plume recently spilled from Atlantic Alumina’s River Parishes refinery into the Mississippi River, underscoring persistent environmental and compliance issues at the nation’s ...

The U.S. is running out of pennies. President Donald Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is starting to have real implications for the nation’s commerce. Merchants in ...

Gov. Jeff Landry said Wednesday that LSU athletic director Scott Woodward will not select the university’s next football coach, following Brian Kelly’s firing and $52.3 million buyout. Landry says the ...

A new poll shows broad support among River Parishes residents for Hyundai’s proposed $5.8 billion steel plant near Donaldsonville, though concerns about pollution remain high, The Center Square writes ...

Shell extended its $3.5 billion quarterly share buyback after reporting stronger-than-expected earnings, lifted by record production and improved trading margins, The Wall Street Journal writes. ...

Wall Street is growing uneasy as tech giants pour record sums into artificial intelligence infrastructure, Bloomberg writes.  Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft spent a combined $78 billion on data centers ...

LSU’s presidential search committee has narrowed its group of candidates for the university’s top position down to three ...

Baton Rouge attorney Harry “Skip” Philips has left Taylor Porter after more than four decades to join Attorney General Liz ...