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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.

The federal government on Tuesday said it has issued millions of dollars in subsidies to a firm to expand silicon wafer production at a St. Charles County facility.

The James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) has awarded an $825,000 grant to St. Louis Public Radio for a program that will "model how St. Louisans can talk across divides in order to create greater understanding in our region."

A provider of construction management and consulting services has expanded with a new Kansas City-area office and is hiring there and at its St. Louis headquarters.

The private, Jesuit university has appointed its 34th president, effective July 1.

Southwest Airlines Co. and American Airlines Group Inc., the two busiest carriers at Lambert, are finishing the year with more optimistic financial projections. Learn about the latest trends impacting the travel business in this story.

The Hoffmann Family of Cos. said Friday it has upped its stake in St. Louis Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises for at least the fourth time.

A St. Louis-based provider of outsourced services for the legal and accounting markets has a new majority investor.

St. Louis has been named to host a week-long national figure skating event in 2026.

Every time Missouri lawmakers have proposed legislation to essentially ban intoxicating-hemp products in the last few years, the hemp industry has mounted a united opposition to stop them. Products like Delta-8 THC drinks can currently be bought everywhere from bars to coffee shops statewide. Year after year, hemp business owners and distributors have asked the state to impose age restrictions and testing requirements, rather than ban the products outright. “We don’t have any mechanism to…

A St. Louis-based architecture firm has won a $56 million federal contract as part of a joint venture.

Republicans have largely ignored a challenge to their likely next House speaker. That's a mistake, columnist Dave Drebes writes.