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JetBlue Airways has again increased its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, outbidding its rival, Denver-based Frontier Airlines. JetBlue currently doesn't serve St. Louis, while Frontier has a major presence here and Spirit began serving the St. Louis area last year.

The venture-backed company said Tuesday it has launched its distribution center in St. Louis as part of an expansion strategy in the Midwest. It's now on the hunt for local employees.

Ameren Corp. has named an executive with over 30 years' utility experience as the next chairman and president of its Illinois electric and natural gas delivery subsidiary.

Plans are still on track to build a secure facility at the Cortex Innovation District aimed at attracting geospatial companies conducting classified business, officials involved with the project said. Here's an update on the project, announced last fall.

A plan to tear down part of a midcentury modern building to build apartments in the Central West End was rejected by a city board Monday.

The decision marks a key step in helping the new owner of the 37-year-old building, Missouri's largest office tower, procure historic tax credits that could help fund its redevelopment. Here's a look at the next steps in the process.

Bayer has said the “weight of scientific evidence and the conclusions of all expert regulators worldwide continue to support the safety of glyphosate-based herbicides and that they are not carcinogenic.”

The bank has taken over the location of a restaurant that was a staple in downtown for nearly 50 years.

The utility plans to buy a 200-megawatt solar installation in central Missouri that's expected to produce enough energy to power about 40,000 homes.

Since its launch in 2020, St. Louis startup Kitchen Stickin’ LLC has sold its innovative tape dispenser online, but at only a single brick-and-mortar retail location. This week, Kitchen Stickin’ will participate in Walmart Inc.’s annual Open Call event, and it's not the only local company that will have a chance to land its product on Walmart shelves.

AAA predicts there will be a record amount of people going on road trips over this Independence Day weekend, even with high gas prices. The organization predicts 42 million people will hit the road from June 30 to July 4. AAA predicts 47.9 million people in the U.S. will travel over the Independence Day holiday weekend. This is an increase of 3.7% over 2021. Travel volumes are just 2% shy of those seen in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic began. The estimation comes from the organization’s yearly…

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 5.81% for the week ended June 23 — up from 5.78% the prior week

Executives from ICL Group, Barry-Wehmiller Group and UniGroup explain the growth in international revenue, and what they expect for the next few years.

It hasn’t even been three years since businesses around the globe closed their offices and sent people home to work from their kitchen tables for what many thought would be just a few weeks. In the time since then, companies and employees alike have adapted to ever-changing circumstances around the way we work and learned just what’s possible with a little flexibility. In fact, recent research found that 78% of business leaders agreed that the pandemic has made them realize that the way they…

Frankie Martin's Garden comes from the backers of 9 Mike Garden, a food truck destination in Affton.

A plan to build an apartment complex at the site of a historic midcentury modern building in the Central West End is opposed by city staffers, even after the developer revised the project to preserve the building’s facade.

The new president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis is focusing her one year as president on exploring the meaning of the oath lawyers take to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Two St. Louis-based affiliated contracting businesses have doubled their shared office space in the Kansas City area.

State and local officials could pave the way for historic tax credits to help fund the redevelopment of the state’s largest office building, the former AT&T tower in downtown St. Louis, if a bid to place the building on the National Register of Historic Places is successful.

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. The Conversation asked Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain, health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, to explain what just happened, and what happens next. The Supreme Court decided by a 6 to 3 majority to uphold Mississippi’s…