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St. Louis-area projects secured millions of dollars from the $1.7 trillion federal government funding package that passed Congress before Christmas.

A neighborhood group is seeking control of a NorthSide Regeneration building it says has deteriorated over years.

Southwest Airlines is canceling thousands of flights this week. Here's a look at the local impact.

Agogie, a Fenton-based startup that sells fitness apparel, is turning to a unique investor base to lure in new capital: its customers. The move comes as the amount of capital snagged by startups has dropped for three consecutive quarters.

Hidden Valley Ski Resort last week opened for its 40th season, later than it initially anticipated. Its general manager said investments in employees by its parent company would shore up the resort's staffing this season.

The general contractor has been working in Arizona for years, completing such projects as the 330,000-square-foot Power 202 Business Park in Mesa and a 420,000-square-foot, 179-unit student housing project near Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Currently, the company is building more than 1.6 million square feet across two industrial projects in Tucson.

Southwest Airlines Co. canceled more than two-thirds of its entire schedule Monday as the airline tries to recover from the weekend winter storm that scrambled much of the nation's commercial flight operations. KSDK reports that Dallas-based Southwest scrapped roughly 38% of its flights to and from St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday, with more cancellations Monday and Tuesday. Some travelers said they'd received no alerts from the airline that there were any problems until they arrived…

In a Christmas Day announcement, Rosati-Kain High School announced it would remain open after reaching a multiyear lease agreement with the Archdiocese of St. Louis. After the archdiocese announced in September it would close Rosati-Kain at the end of the 2022-23 school year as part of its "All Things New" consolidation plan, alumnae and students came together and launched a campaign to save the school. The campaign, called RK Forever, aimed to establish Rosati-Kain as an independent school…

Next week, Dean Plocher, from St. Louis County, will become the top Republican in the Missouri House of Representatives. He’ll be sworn in as the speaker of the House. But already folks are looking beyond it.

Demetrious Johnson, the St. Louis native who played for five seasons in the NFL and in retirement helped thousands through a charitable foundation that bore his name, died Saturday. He was 61. Family members said Johnson died of an aortic dissection, a rare condition in which a tear occurs in the inner layer of the body's main artery, at a St. Louis hospital. "His family and friends are saddened by this loss. His big heart and love for his community will never be forgotten," his daughter, Ashley…

Revitalizing Downtown will succeed through active collaboration, leveraging and amplifying our collective resources toward common goals, writes Kelli McCrary of the Downtown Community Improvement District.

QuikTrip has started the long zoning process required to build a new gas station and convenience store next to the Saint Louis University campus, which will require a series of public hearings and approvals from city and state officials.

A company has purchased a 20-acre industrial storage site in north St. Louis for $7.25 million.

The company's new CEO says a top priority will be to raise funding to expand its operations. That effort comes as it has recently signed on more than 450 audiologists to use its platform to help patients with hearing loss.

The first phase of the project took more than five years to complete, and includes 150 apartments, office space for 33 nonprofit tenants, a deli, and retail storefronts lining Delmar Boulevard that will include an Edward Jones location and Greater Health Pharmacy.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation has awarded a six-year, $4 million grant to the University of Missouri - St. Louis and its College of Education.

There is one week left to submit your nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2023 HR Awards program.

The Lists you will read in this year's Book of Lists, and that you read in each weekly edition of the St. Louis Business Journal, are more than just a roster of names and numbers in sequential order. Collectively, they are a catalog of St. Louis business, a representation of the depth and scale of a metro area that remains the economic engine of Missouri. They paint a picture of a region as seen through the lens of its business community — its leaders, both in stature and wealth; the organizations…

St. Louis Business Journal takes great pride in presenting our annual Book of Lists, the region’s only compilation of industry lists that features the top companies and business leaders throughout the metro area. These lists provide a quick but thorough snapshot of the companies and people you need to reach. It’s business information and a market intelligence tool that continues to set the high standard you expect from St. Louis’ leading source of business news, information and analysis.  The…

Note: Below is the researcher's note from the Business Journal's 2022-23 Book of Lists, which is being delivered to subscribers this week in place of our weekly issue. The Book of Lists is a compilation of the Lists we publish throughout the year and is arguably the best resource for the St. Louis business community as a whole. Each year, we set out to make our List program the best it can be. In 2022, we did this in a few ways. One way: we added more Lists. In 2021, we evaluated the trends…