economy

Odds are, even if you weren't one hundred percent positive, you had a very good idea that never before have gasoline prices been this high in Louisiana.

Since February's winter storm gas prices have been on the rise in Louisiana. You might not believe just how much more you're paying today than you were paying only six months ago.

The COVID-19 crisis has caused massive economic destruction across the United States, but maybe nowhere as much as here in Louisiana.

If you're looking for a career, this could be for you.

What was originally an $11 billion project is doubling.

Mardi Gras 2017 could bring some big bucks to the area

No, Lake Charles isn't literally a doughnut. It's just a metaphor. A delicious, fatty pastry metaphor for economic development. Or the lack thereof.

Louisiana's budget shortfall smells to high heaven. Where did the money go?

Two Louisiana communities have seen an upturn in their local economy in the last half of 2015. What's it going to take for the rest of the state to join that turn around?

What will the new year bring for those in the oil and gas industry? One expert offers his opinions on why 2016 shouldn't be as much of a roller coaster ride as 2015 was.

Everyone loves paying less at the pump, but low oil prices are having a negative impact on plans for a boom to the economy in this area. Right now a few of the proposed projects are being put on hold due to falling energy prices and we can now count the Axiall project among those being held up by those low petro prices.

In the midst of all the new jobs being created in our state, according to the U.S. Labor Department, unemployment went up in the month of December