Associated Press - Mon June 04, 2018
Company Plans $9.4B La. Chemical Complex
DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) A company based in Taiwan plans to build a $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex on a 2,400-acre site in Louisiana, officials announced April 23. Gov. John Bel Edwards and Formosa Petrochemical Corp....
Mon April 23, 2018
Company Describes Plans for Proposed Tangipahoa Casino
The Los Angeles-based company Peninsula Pacific said a new casino it hopes to build in Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana would have an indoor and outdoor event center, a farmer's market buffet and a potential bass fishing tournament dock....
Melinda DeSlatte - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon April 09, 2018
Local Gas Tax Idea Rebuffed by La. House Tax Committee
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana parishes and municipalities won't be able to raise their own gas taxes to pay for road and bridge work. Lawmakers on the House tax committee spurned a proposed constitutional amendment March 26 that would have removed an existing ban keeping local governments from levying taxes on motor fuels....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Fri February 09, 2018
Gilchrist Works on Its Portion of DOTD's I-10
Crews from Gilchrist Construction Company LLC have been working steadily on the $54.7 million Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) project along 2.7 mi. of Interstate I-10 to reconstruct and widen the four-lane (two lanes in each direction) section of highway....
Mon January 29, 2018
Repairs to Flooded Homes Set for Completion by Year End
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana is expected to award all of its flood-rebuilding grants to homeowners by August, two years after the historic flooding. Most of the repair and reconstruction work should be completed by the end of the year....
Mon January 29, 2018
Officials Break Ground on $872M Natural Gas Facility
WESTLAKE, La. (AP) Government officials and executives of the Entergy utility corporation gathered in southwest Louisiana to break ground for an $872 million natural gas-fired generating station. The governor's office said the Entergy Louisiana project will employ about 700 people in Calcasieu Parish at the peak of construction....
Melinda DeSlatte - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Fri January 12, 2018
$600M in Louisiana Interstate Projects Moving Toward Reality
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana intends to use a federal transportation borrowing tool to construct $600 million in interstate projects that have been sought for decades to relieve traffic headaches, Gov....
Janet McConnaughey – Associated Press - Tue January 02, 2018
Suit Asks for Governor's Office, Sheriff's Pipeline Records
NEW ORLEANS (AP) A human rights law firm has sued the Louisiana governor's office and a sheriff's office to get records involving a crude oil pipeline proposed to cross the Atchafalaya (uh-CHAF-uh-LY-uh) Basin....
Tue January 02, 2018
Louisiana DOTD Breaks Ground on Hwy 42 Widening
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Shawn Wilson joined Gov. John Bel Edwards and other state and local officials Nov. 30 to officially launch a project to widen state highway 42 in Ascension Parish southeast of Baton Rouge....
Mon December 18, 2017
Genie Expands Its Sales Team in North America
Committed to earning customers' business with responsive support, Genie has hired six new sales representatives in North America to represent the company — Dickey Bennett, Justin Kelley, Dave Porter, Tim Schmidt, Mike Shaw and Brad Trask....
