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He's already built one successful business and saved another. Now John Simmons is on a quest to revitalize the Metro East city of Alton, one building at a time.

The survey asked students which factors would help them choose one location over the other in part of the university's mission to help St. Louis retain young talent.

The St. Louis Blues said Tuesday Bally Sports Midwest will air 71 of its games in the 2024-25 NHL season, with the regional sports network continuing as its broadcaster amid uncertainty about its future.

Two Starbucks locations in the city of St. Louis have shut down temporarily in closures that have now lasted more than a month.

After 10 years at its original location, Sugarfire Smokehouse Winghaven has relocated to a new location at 1541 Bryan Road in Dardenne Prairie.

Urban Chestnut Brewing Co. is switching things up at its brewery and bierhall kitchen in The Grove.

The court debate Tuesday over how Missouri marijuana products get taxed statewide sounded similar to a grammar class on conjunctions and comma placement. The constitutional amendment voters approved in 2022 legalizing recreational marijuana allowed local governments to impose additional sales tax on the products. The big question before the three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday was: what did voters intend by “local government?” Attorneys for St. Louis…

Three Planned Parenthood clinics in eastern and southern Missouri will shut their doors next month, though the organization’s leaders insist the moves will ultimately expand access to reproductive health care. As part of the consolidation effort, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will be expanding telehealth services and hours at its remaining St. Louis clinics. The moves come as the state has successfully implemented legislation cutting Planned Parenthood clinics off from Medicaid funding, though…

A St. Louis law firm has hired Shane Chapman as a shareholder in its health care practice group, touting his experience in defending lawsuits in Metro East.

A national drive-thru coffee chain will soon open its first location in St. Louis County.

The St. Louis Cardinals are eyeing upgrades to Busch Stadium. The solution to that may, at least in part, come from Jefferson City.

The biotech company received grants from the GHR Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation accelerator.

The project has added solar panels to the library's Buder and Julia Davis branches.

SSM Health's St. Louis region on Monday opened a new outpatient center in southern St. Charles County that's been two years in the making.

While an arts-focused location in the Grove closed, the company is running more coworking spaces in St. Louis than it did before the pandemic.

A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel has ordered St. Louis-based Stifel Financial Corp.'s (NYSE: SF) broker-dealer unit to pay over $14.2 million to Florida investors who alleged the firm failed to supervise a broker who recommended complex securities known as structured notes.

The deal includes selling a stake to a Cleveland-based auto technology company as well as capital from a high-profile St. Louis-area investor and the CEO of a local tech company.

Jamie Rivers is co-host of the "Fast Lane," the afternoon sports talk show on ESPN radio 101. In 2023, he became the full-time TV analyst for Blues broadcasts on Bally Sports Midwest. He's the owner of Synergy Hockey, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year.

A major change is underway at the FBI St. Louis field office where for the first time in history there is a female special agent in charge. She worked for years as a parole officer, and saw the other side of policing, long before she became the first female leader of the St. Louis Field Office. Johnson was named to the post last month, succeeding Jay Greenberg. After 17 years on the job, including postings in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., Johnson has learned one thing. “The mission…

A $42 million apartment project in the Cortex innovation district is seeking a sales tax exemption from the city of St. Louis.