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Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. members have voted overwhelmingly to approve the insurer’s conversion from a mutual insurance company into a stock insurance company. The measure passed with ...

Small town taverns—once fading relics of a slower America—are making a comeback as chefs trade big city acclaim for community connection, The Wall Street Journal writes.  In Sergeantsville, New Jersey ...

Crawfish prices fell another 50 cents per pound this week, marking the second consecutive weekly drop during Lent, according to The Crawfish App. The Baton Rouge-based pricing tracker, monitoring real ...

Target will stop selling cereals containing synthetic colors by the end of May. The retailer said Friday it had been phasing cereals with synthetic colors for several years. Right now, 85% of its ...

Baton Rouge's casinos saw a slight dip in gaming revenue to start the year, but still posted higher numbers than a year ago, ...

Louisiana energy regulators are pushing back against an environmental group’s report that claims the state is fast-tracking dozens of carbon capture and storage projects without adequate oversight, ...

Louisiana utility regulators this week declined to investigate Meta’s decision to shift ownership of its $28 billion Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana Illuminator writes.  Meta ...

The French Quarter Festival will no longer have Chevron as a sponsor beginning in 2027, closing a 13-year partnership. The move comes after months of pressure from local activist groups, Louisiana ...

Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after it announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000-plus employees, reconfiguring to ...

The Trump administration is moving to unwind a Biden-era rule that tightened standards for classifying gig workers as employees, a shift that could reshape labor practices across industries from ...

U.S. wholesale prices came in hotter than expected last month. The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation before it hits consumers, rose 0.5% from ...