Americans stepped up their purchases at retailers last month as low unemployment, steady pay gains and rising stock and home values helped sustain their willingness to spend despite higher prices.

Compensation for attorneys who run local public defender offices will remain the same, in spite of a monthslong effort from Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration to change their pay scale. Louisiana’s ...

Mid City pet owners will soon have a new place to shop for pet supplies.  Parish Pets, a pet supply store located on South ...

Hurricane Milton caused as much as $55 billion in property damage throughout Florida last week, according to the latest estimates. Hitting just two weeks after Hurricane Helene, Milton was the latest ...

Florida has built more than 75,000 new properties in high-risk flood areas since 2019, the most in the nation, The Wall Street Journal reports.  That’s according to an analysis by climate-modeling ...

Currently, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has 109 active projects in the works, from hurricane protection and marsh creation to shoreline protection and flood diversion. The CPRA ...

Building an enviable workplace culture isn’t easy. But in the latest episode of Business Report’s Strictly Business, a few executives at the helm of some of the Best Places to Work in the Capital ...

The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges—but there will also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a ...

Hear Her Concerns, a local campaign by Healthy BR’s Maternal and Child Health Consortium aims to prevent pregnancy-related deaths by sharing potentially lifesaving messages about urgent maternal ...

Before I talk about how to do this, I want to make sure we are on the same page. When I talk about excellence, the human instinct (mine included) is to think about our best day. We want to think about ...

Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. working women? Although women who lost or left their jobs at the height of the crisis have largely returned to the workforce, a recent ...

Goldman Sachs on Tuesday reported a monster jump in its third-quarter earnings, reaping $3 billion in profits—far higher than what Wall Street analysts had expected. The bank pulled off the feat with ...