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The nearly $8 billion consumer packaged goods holding company, based in Brentwood, is expanding its potato holdings with an acquisition.

A St. Louis venue will host what officials say will be the largest-ever indoor professional pickleball event.

A Kansas City law firm with a large presence in the St. Louis area has hired five attorneys away from a big Clayton firm.

A long-running independent grocery store will close at the end of the year.

A Clayton law firm is seeking to move a lawsuit filed by its former vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion from St. Louis Circuit Court to the County and have it dismissed.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has awarded a $5.1 million grant to a local university to help advance literacy education across the St. Louis region and beyond.

The St. Louis County Council voted Tuesday night not to recommend the county executive's choice for county prosecutor. A judge is deciding between Sam Page's pick and Gov. Mike Parson's choice to replace Wesley Bell when he is sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in January. When the judge makes his ruling on who has the power to decide the next top prosecutor, the county council would have to sign off if the judge sides with Page. After hearing from both candidates Tuesday…

A St. Louis-area hospital furloughed its employees because of a blood shortage, according to a letter from its board of directors. Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital, NorthSide Regeneration's small North City hospital, announced the shutdown Tuesday afternoon. The hospital said the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) approved a temporary suspension of operations until the hospital could find a "reliable and continuous source of blood." The hospital opened in January at 1320…

A Cape Girardeau developer is proposing a big indoor sports facility, hotel, food truck park and new restaurants on a vacant site in St. Charles County.

Kirkwood has recently passed on big development proposals for its quaint downtown, and now has a high-stakes choice: allow more big projects or listen to some residents who've turned against large 'cookie-cutter' projects.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday asked the FBI and Missouri auditor to probe the city's Building Division, following allegations of corruption in the department.

Frontier Airlines on Tuesday said it had "paused" a route to St. Louis.

Manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and technology have been identified as key industries to help grow the Illinois economy next year.

The Francis Howell School District superintendent is resigning to take the top job at Kirkwood School District in 2025.

There is one week left to submit a nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's sixth annual Innovation in Philanthropy Awards, a program that celebrates innovative partnerships between nonprofit organizations and local companies. Submit your nomination here before the Dec. 23 deadline. These awards highlight companies and organizations that are going above and beyond the standard philanthropic practices to evolve programs in our communities. In your nomination, tell us about the creative ways…

The firm is specializing in handling the SBA’s primary business loan program, known as the 7(a). It provides loan guaranties to lenders and the loans can be used for several purposes, including acquiring, refinancing or improving real estate and buildings.

A global transportation and logistics company based in the Pacific Northwest has acquired a St. Louis-based transportation business.

The St. Louis County Council wants to ask both picks to replace Wesley Bell some questions as the legal battle over who will fill the office continues. According to a committee meeting notice published on the county website, the council will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday night to discuss both candidates, Cort VanOstran and Melissa Price Smith. The meeting notice lists VanOstran and Price Smith as invitees at the meeting and the agenda has time for questions from council members and…

Members of Kansas’ congressional delegation celebrated the federal government’s decision Monday to remove a proposed electric transmission line route from a program offering assistance for power infrastructure projects. But the project will still move forward. The U.S. Department of Energy earlier this year announced a list of preliminary “National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors” to offer financial assistance and permits to transmission line builders in areas with little infrastructure. One…

A growing global packaging business based locally is buying the container business of an Atlanta-based manufacturer.