NEW ORLEANS (AP) — There was brinksmanship with a whiff of ransom. In the aftermath of a citywide blackout that lasted for days after Hurricane Ida hit on Aug. 29, dissatisfaction among residents and city leaders was growing with utility…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Procore Technologies Inc., a provider of construction management software, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Levelset, a New Orleans tech company that created…
NEW ORLEANS - From the University of New Orleans: UNO has received a $34,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to create an urban bird habitat on campus and support educational programming connected to environmental conservation. The grant…
LAFAYETTE — Acadian Capital Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, is investing in Iconic Moments, an NFT marketplace exclusively for museums and cultural institutions around the world. Acadian Capital Ventures joined VentureSouth, Cultivation Capital,…
BATON ROUGE – From Louisiana Economic Development: Educators, manufacturers and economic development organizations throughout Louisiana will celebrate Manufacturing Week 2021 from Sept. 26 through Oct. 2. The sixth annual event is designed to celebrate the importance of manufacturing to the…
BATON ROUGE – A new federal jobs report shows Louisiana’s employment growth in August was negligible despite an outsized drop in the state’s unemployment rate. “Although Louisiana’s unemployment rate dropped from 6.6 to 6.2 (percent), the reason for this decrease…
BATON ROUGE – Federal disaster aid remains elusive because of political gamesmanship in Washington as Louisiana residents struggle through Hurricane Ida’s lasting impacts and the remaining effects of natural disasters dating to last hurricane season. After visiting New Orleans and…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans announced that it will begin providing direct payments to utility providers, and rapid relief to landlords to stop tenants from being displaced because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Aug. 25, the U.S.…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hurricane Ida’s winds and floods did at least $584 million in damage to agriculture in Louisiana, experts at the LSU AgCenter estimate. More than half of that — $315.9 million — is timber damage, with…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans announced that it will award four contracts aimed at solving the city's ongoing solid waste collection crisis. Emergency contracts will be awarded to Ceres Environmental Services LLC, River Birch LLC, Waste Management…
NEW ORLEANS — Chef Emeril Lagasse’s flagship restaurant, Emeril’s, will reopen its doors on Sept. 28, after being closed for over a year due to the pandemic and Hurricane Ida. David Slater, culinary director of Emeril’s Homebase, will work alongside…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans will cohost the 2021 New Orleans Electric Vehicle Showcase with partners Entergy New Orleans and the Southeast Louisiana Clean Fuel Partnership this Saturday, Sept. 25 at Loyola University. The event will take…
NEW ORLEANS — Jones Walker LLP announced that Lena Giangrosso has joined the firm’s New Orleans office as special counsel in the litigation practice group and a member of the healthcare litigation team. Giangrosso is a litigator and trial and…
NEW ORLEANS – Zehnder Communications, an advertising and public relations firm with offices in Louisiana and Tennessee, has announced several staff promotions in its New Orleans office. Erin Matthews has been promoted to media director from media supervisor. A graduate…
BATON ROUGE - In much of the country, public pension funding has been one of the most persistent public policy problems. For years, many state governments have failed to make necessary investments in their…
NEW ORLEANS - Energy Smart, an energy efficiency program developed by the New Orleans City Council and administered by Entergy New Orleans, said it is accepting Hurricane Ida Recovery Fund applications now through Oct.…
NEW YORK (AP) — Even before the pandemic, home booking sites like Airbnb and Vrbo were becoming increasingly popular with travelers. The opportunity to have a homelike experience, complete with full kitchen, extra living space and local flavor, was more…
NEW ORLEANS – With many Louisiana residents in need of housing solutions in the wake of Hurricane Ida, the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors (NOMAR) has launched a public awareness campaign to remind people how its members can help. “We…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Procore Technologies Inc., a provider of construction management software, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Levelset, a New Orleans tech company that created an online platform for managing construction liens, in a deal said to be…
NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Health and LCMC Health, two of Louisiana’s largest health systems and private employers, are teaming up with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and other national and state officials to lobby for federal relief. Top officials from…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's oyster farmers, crabbers, shrimpers and anglers are nothing if not adaptable, producing millions of pounds of seafood annually, often in water that was dry land a generation ago. They've fought off a devastating oil spill,…
NEW ORLEANS - Turn Services, a maritime company headquartered in Bywater, will host its 11th Annual Glen Otero Memorial Golf Tournament on Thursday, Nov. 4 at the Lakewood Golf Club. Proceeds will benefit Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. For the…
NEW ORLEANS - From the Tulane University communications department: In 2019, nearly 50,000 people in the United States died from opioid overdoses, bringing the total of number of deaths from the opioid crisis to half a million over the past…
GRAY, La. - From Danos: Headquartered in Gray, LA, Danos has approximately 2,300 employees, with 875 living in the Hurricane Ida disaster area, as declared by FEMA. Nearly 250 (10% of its total employee base) sustained significant storm damage, some…
NEW ORLEANS — Adams and Reese LLP has announced that Ricardo “Richard” Aguilar has joined the firm’s financial services practice as a partner in the New Orleans office. He brings experience in commercial…
NEW ORLEANS – McGlinchey Stafford has announced that Casey O’Flynn has joined its national corporate and M&A practice in its New Orleans office as an associate. He joins from a boutique construction law firm in Louisiana. Prior to that, he…
NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Film Office announced that filming in the city and the issuance of film permits will resume on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. “The amount of film productions with large…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Amid calls for investigations following major power losses during Hurricane Ida, the power company subsidiary that provides electric service to New Orleans said Tuesday it's ready to discuss having the city assume control of the municipal…
BATON ROUGE - Pick any two cities or towns in the United States, and each will be home to people who work in very similar fields. Certain occupations in areas like education, sanitation, law enforcement, health care, and retail are…
NEW ORLEANS - The American Heart Association in Greater New Orleans and Oschner Health will host a free webinar at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 30 highlighting digital practices as part of a comprehensive employee wellbeing program. Physicians and program members from…
