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The issue that triggered the CMS suspension, which starts Jan. 1, revolves around WellCare of Missouri’s medical loss ratio. CMS requires Medicare Advantage plans to spend a minimum of 85% of the funds they receive on patient care and quality improvement.

The St. Louis-based toy retailer hired an executive with nearly 20 years of experience in the toy, consumer products and entertainment industries as its new chief revenue officer.

A 160-acre farm in the Jefferson City area has acquired a St. Louis local food distributor that works with 100 local farms within a 175-mile radius of St. Louis in both Missouri and Illinois.

The principals of embattled St. Louis developer Green Street are facing more litigation.

The deal comes a few months after the company defaulted on a different Clayton office building it owned.

The cities of O’Fallon and St. Charles in Missouri are coming together to build and operate law enforcement training center. Construction of a new $24 million law enforcement training center is already underway in O'Fallon. “What I like about it is this was designed by police officers, for police officers, the elected officials, had nothing to do with it,” O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy said. O'Fallon Police Chief Frank Mininni said it's not just for their officers. Thursday, they signed…

A St. Louis-based amusement company that seeks to create a "waterless water park" experience has its sights set on Columbus, Ohio.

The St. Louis Business Journal on Thursday celebrated the winners of the Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards for 2024 with a luncheon at the Bayer Event Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The reason that our trips extend to 11 to 12 hours, versus the possible 10 hours or less, is that over the decades, I have found certain restaurants to stop at.

The Jefferson County Port Authority has purchased 18 riverfront acres from an existing port for a publicly owned terminal facility in Herculaneum.

The Creve Coeur-based agriculture technology firm said it has signed a nonbinding letter of intent to discuss terms of a possible acquisition of the company.

The International Institute of St. Louis has helped 280 immigrants and refugees from Latin America make St. Louis their new home over the past year, with the majority of them coming from New York City or Chicago.

Fontbonne said in March that it would sell its campus to WashU, as it winds down operations. Now, a sale price has become public.

A Wright City-based developer of fiber broadband networks has found its next top executive inside the business.

Within his role as director of community and economic development at First Mid Bank & Trust, Brian Gibson acts as a liaison between the bank and various external parties, including nonprofits, community residents, businesses and government officials.

During a time when diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs have become more politicized and questioned, the people and companies part of this year's Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards have kept moving forward with their work to make St. Louis a more diverse place to live and work.

As an entrepreneurship program manager at Cortex Innovation Community, Ben Molina brings a social worker’s lens to the task of fostering innovation for concept- and early-stage entrepreneurs.

As senior director for The Fellows Experience at Greater St. Louis Inc., Trezette Dixon fosters leadership development for mid-career professionals of color in the St. Louis region.

Mark Kamimura-Jiménez has been instrumental in Washington University’s efforts to center diversity and inclusion for the entire student body and university community, fostering a learning environment that enriches and supports students from all backgrounds.

A state-court judge on Thursday dismissed the remaining count in a lawsuit brought against St. Louis development entities by Bank of Washington, the lender for developer NorthSide Regeneration.