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WASHINGTON — America’s employers in March added a sizzling 303,000 workers to their payrolls, bolstering hopes that the economy can vanquish inflation without succumbing to a recession.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. has sued the city of Sacramento, Calif., alleging the city's environmental plan will harm the company's large North Sacramento facility.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders helped open a $90 million cold storage and distribution facility expansion by Americold to strengthen the state’s food supply chain.

The weight of electric vehicles batteries should be halved over the next decade in order to make the cars more efficient and environmentally friendly, Stellantis NV CEO Carlos Tavares said.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A major South Korean computer chipmaker said April 3 it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a semiconductor packaging plant and research center.

BALTIMORE — The only maritime shipping terminal currently operating in the Port of Baltimore is preparing to process an influx of ships.

An ongoing federal investigation into staged accidents with tractor-trailers in the New Orleans area in recent months has implicated five additional participants in the scams that have so far resulted in charges against more than 60 individuals.

The Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act, sponsored by Reps. Dusty Johnson and John Garamendi, was approved on March 21 by a vote of 393 to 24.

The deaths of six workers killed in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore have raised questions about safety precautions.

The Biden administration won’t move forward with its latest plans to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid rising prices.