The struggling U.S. office property market may be bottoming out, Reuters reports.  Over the last quarter, there has been a string of sales of stressed properties with big discounts, helping to set a ...

The Supreme Court on Friday left in place two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing industry emissions of planet warming methane and toxic mercury. The justices did not ...

Spike: The average rate on the 30-year-fixed mortgage jumped 27 basis points Friday morning following the release of the government’s monthly employment report. The rate is now 6.53%. Read more from ...

Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association returned to work Friday after the union reached a tentative ...

New unemployment claims in Louisiana dropped around 2.3% for the week ending Sept. 28. There were 1,664 initial insurance claims filed last week, down from the prior week’s 1,703. The filings grew 6.3 ...

U.S. vehicle sales fell 1.9% year over year, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week, as high prices on new ...

Shell Chemical, in Ascension Parish, brought home the 2024 Lantern Award for manufacturing excellence from Louisiana Economic ...

Suspended: Ports impacted by this week’s strike began reopening late on Thursday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half ...

Jenee Esquivel has relaunched her brick-and-mortar brand, Moxi Boutique, as Moxi the Label, an online business with a focus on handmade charm necklaces and limited women’s apparel. Esquivel joins a ...

America’s employers added a surprisingly strong 254,000 jobs in September, the latest evidence that the U.S. labor market is still solid enough to support steady hiring and a growing economy. Last ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s supporters are getting energized about the 2026 reelection cycle following a Monday night fundraiser that yielded more than $350,000 for the Baton Rouge physician’s campaign.

Mortgage rates slightly increased last week, but it was enough to take a little heat out of what had been a briefly red-hot refinance market. That caused total mortgage application volume to fall 1.3% ...