Union Pacific Railroad will strengthen Missouri’s transportation infrastructure by investing $21 million to construct a more-than-nine-mile second main line track in the Bell City area, in southeast Missouri. The project, funded ... Read More
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology are conducting work that could shape the next generation of nuclear reactors. The state’s first nuclear reactor was constructed more than 50 ... Read More
The work will be performed at Boeing’s Hazelwood facility and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2015, Air Force officials announced. The contract involves foreign military sales for Israel. ... Read More
Ford Motor Co.’s Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo will begin operating around the clock as the company prepares to hire 900 more workers to fill another F-150 production shift, The ... Read More
The project is expected to create 5,000 construction jobs when work begins in 2016 and 500 operational jobs after it starts operation in 2018. Clean Line Energy Partners LLC, the Houston-based ... Read More
St. Louis and Kansas City have made MarketWatch’s “Top Cities for Business Growth” list. Twenty metrics were used to develop the rankings and were divided into three main groups looking at ... Read More
The top-ranked Missouri company, Express Scripts, moved up to 24th from 60th. The state has ten companies on the list, nine of which are located in St. Louis. O’Reilly Automotive is ... Read More
All three top global credit-rating agencies, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s, and Standard & Poor’s, have recently reaffirmed Missouri’s AAA credit rating. The ratings, which apply to general obligation bonds issued by the ... Read More
Dozens of strains of algae are growing at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in a new algae farm that’s powered by 30 kilowatts of electricity. Twelve custom growth chambers, which ... Read More
Kansas City, turning toward the sun, has signed a deal to install solar panels and equipment on 80 city buildings to meet part of their demand for electricity. Brightergy, a Kansas ... Read More