NEW ORLEANS - Aviation design firm Garver welcomes engineer Tim Burbach as its new Louisiana aviation team leader. Based in New Orleans, Burbach plans to deliver innovative and cost-effective designs to airports throughout Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast. With…
METAIRIE – MBT Bancshares Inc. (OTC: MBKL), the holding company of Metairie Bank & Trust Co., announced that its board of directors at their meeting on Nov. 24, 2020, declared a semi-annual cash dividend of $0.50 per share on the…
NEW ORLEANS – Small business owners in Orleans Parish can now use Energy Smart’s Small Business Online Store at www.energysmart.store to purchase energy efficiency products to help reduce their energy use and save money on their electric bill. The online…
NEW ORLEANS - At the third annual New Orleans Health Innovators Challenge. the New Orleans Business Alliance and partners announced the winners of five pitch competitions, including the Social Isolation Challenge, which includes significant project funding from lead sponsors Blue…
NEW ORLEANS – LOCAL 718, a "five-star dive bar and restaurant concept" from the Little Easy owner Brian Mullin, opened to the public on Nov. 29 at 718 Bourbon Street, the former location of Johnny White's Corner Bar and Hole…
BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Workforce Commission is attributing a recent spike in claims for unemployment benefits to fraud. Officials say more than 32,000 claims have been filed over the past two weeks, many of which are being “rigorously reviewed…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards can heap on coronavirus restrictions, telling Louisiana residents not to gather in groups and to practice behavior that puts fewer people at risk of the COVID-19 disease. But he can't be in…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana has picked a contractor to handle the first phase of a new Interstate 10 project in the Baton Rouge area that will expand the regularly traffic-snarled roadway. Construction on the I-10 widening between LA 415…
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s casino sector was in decline before the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the slide has continued amid customer health concerns and restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. All but two of the state’s casinos…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cannabis stocks are flying high after voters in New Jersey, Arizona and three other states cleared the way for expanding legal sales of marijuana. Shares in some of the biggest cannabis companies, including Aurora Cannabis, Canopy…
NEW ORLEANS — Earlier this month, Greater New Orleans Inc., Verizon, Generation USA and Delgado Community College announced a new partnership to bring a workforce development program to the greater New Orleans region. The online reskilling program will provide free…
NEW ORLEANS – Fidelity Bank and WDSU have teamed up to reward one local New Orleans-area winner a $5,000 home office makeover. The percentage of those working from home has skyrocketed in 2020 due to the COVID crisis and experts…
NEW ORLEANS - In its latest survey of university entrepreneurship programs, the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked the Freeman School 42nd on its list of the best graduate programs for entrepreneurship. The ranking appears in the December 2020 issue…
NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana-based delivery company Waitr is teaming with local restaurant partners to collect non-perishable food donations at select New Orleans-area restaurant locations. Waitr has partnered with these New Orleans-area restaurants and markets for the month-long drive: Breakfast Club…
Spice maker McCormick & Co. is buying the parent of Cholula Hot Sauce from private-equity firm L Catteron for $800 million, expanding its reach in the hot sauce category. That deal included French’s mustard and Frank’s…
NEW YORK (AP) - With coronavirus cases spiking in the U.S. and Europe, the financial outlook of the world’s airlines is getting worse. Airlines will lose more than $157 billion over this year and next because of the pandemic, their…
NEW YORK (AP) - Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work — again — as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — With Louisiana seeing a new spike in coronavirus hospitalizations, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday toughened restrictions on businesses and gatherings ahead of Thanksgiving, worried the holidays would only worsen the outbreak's spread. The Democratic governor decreased…
NEW ORLEANS - Providence Community Housing has announced the the reopening of St. Ann Square, a 59-unit apartment property for low-income seniors in Tremé. “Providence is thrilled to welcome seniors back home to St. Ann Square,” said Terri North, president…
NEW ORLEANS - Five Tulane University students will receive a total of $100,000 for their work in promoting racial…
NEW ORLEANS – For the third year in a row, New Orleans & Company has received the honor of The Knot Best of Weddings 2021, an award representing the best event professionals across the country, as reviewed by real couples,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped in September as strong demand, low interest rates and the smallest number of available homes on record combined to push up housing costs. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence fell to a reading of 96.1 in November as rising coronavirus cases pushed American optimism down to the lowest level since August. The November reading released Tuesday by the the Conference Board said represents…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Leaders of several Louisiana public school systems called on state officials Monday to relax coronavirus quarantine rules that have sent thousands of students home from school because they have been in close proximity to someone who…
NEW ORLEANS — NextOp Inc. and Greater New Orleans Inc. are pleased to announce NextOp is expanding its presence in southeast Louisiana. The two organizations partnered to pursue a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, which was in partnership…
BATON ROUGE – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Louisiana presented professional engineer Sergio Girau with Linfield, Hunter & Junius, with the 2020 A.E. Wilder Award during the 2020 ACECL Fall Conference. The A.E. Wilder Award, named after a…
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana will receive $234.6 million of Deepwater Horizon settlement money for wetlands restoration projects in Plaquemines, Terrebonne and St. Bernard parishes, officials said Monday. The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved plans totaling more than $900 million…
BATON ROUGE – A broader and simpler tax structure would be fairer to taxpayers, provide a more predictable revenue stream for government, and make Louisiana’s economy more competitive with the rest of the nation, according to the Resilient Louisiana commission.…
BATON ROUGE – The American Council of Engineering Companies of Louisiana presented Brian Moldaner with the 2020 Robby Cangelosi award during the 2020 ACECL Fall Conference. The Robby Cangelosi award recognizes the accomplishments of a young professional engineer who is…
NEW ORLEANS — City officials are encouraging residents to take extreme health and safety precautions to once again help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in New Orleans. The threat level this week has risen to "red" — which signals an…
