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Robin Restaurant, located at 7268 Manchester Road, will open its doors Thursday after two years of pop-ups and private dinners.

A family of contracting companies is moving to a new headquarters, and one of the contractors has already completed its move.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is doubling down on his demand that Planned Parenthood stop performing a type of abortion that its clinics aren’t actually offering patients. On Monday, Bailey issued a notice of an intent to serve a cease and desist letter to Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which operates clinics in the Kansas City metro and Columbia. It’s an identical threat to the one Bailey issued earlier this month to Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which operates clinics in the…

A former Jack Cooper employee claims that the auto hauling company violated the WARN Act in laying off thousands of people in February, including over 200 in St. Charles County. The suit seeks class-action status.

After two years of stalemates and gridlock, the Missouri Capitol finally has a functioning legislature. But for Dems, these are tough times, Dave Drebes writes.

Nine years into his company's history, Park lives his vision of making St. Louis spirit fashionable.

St. Louis County unveiled its new flag Tuesday morning, thanks to two local artists in residency at the Kranzberg Arts Foundation. The new flag features a fresh, forward-looking interpretation of the iconic fleur-de-lis, a symbol that has long been associated with the region. Both José Garza and Hayveyah McGowan combined their creative talents to put a modern flair on the flag. “With feedback and inspiration from the community, and the talents of José and Hayveyah, I am pleased to show you…

On Tuesday, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) transported an MQ-25 Stingray, a refueling drone for fighter jets, from its plant in Berkeley to the new production facility in Mascoutah in Metro East, near Mid-America St. Louis Airport. It is the first aircraft to begin final assembly at the new facility.

A $55 million innovation center in Metro East has set its opening date, and taken on a major partnership that will be reflected in the center’s name.

Civil engineering firm Lochmueller Group has moved its St. Louis office to City Foundry, relocating from downtown.

A St. Louis-based elevator inspection company that's also one of the region's fastest-growing private businesses has named a new leader.

The venture capital arm of Soul Street Asset Management has closed on its $22.5 million inaugural fund designed to fuel the growth of early-stage startups.

Danny Ludeman, a highly respected leader in financial services as CEO of Wells Fargo Advisors who later founded a nonprofit to create new career pathways for ex-inmates, died March 9 at his home in Weems, Virginia, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 68.

More than 150 nominations were submitted for the St. Louis Business Journal's annual Best Places to Work Awards program for 2025. These 80 companies stand out as the finalists in this year's program.

CEO Mike DeCamp will leave the company and be replaced by central Illinois row crop farmer Jim Hedges.

KDHX 88.1 FM, the troubled nonprofit community radio station, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, officials with parent Double Helix Corp. said late Monday.

Bill Eigel hasn’t been a Missouri senator for months, and he fell short in his two recent runs for governor and chair of the state GOP. Yet as the Missouri General Assembly speeds toward the midpoint of its most productive legislative session in years, Eigel remains a subject of fascination for the legislature he left behind. “We lovingly refer to that as the ‘ghost of Bill Eigel in Jefferson City,’” Eigel said with a laugh in a recent interview with The Independent. Part of it is Eigel’s…

A proposal to have Missouri take over control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is one step closer to Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk after the state Senate on Monday voted 27-5 in favor of an omnibus crime bill that includes that provision. The bill, which includes other items such as a requirement to report the immigration status of anyone who commits a Class A misdemeanor or higher, has to technically go back to the House, but people with knowledge of the bill's legislative process told…

The site of a long-stalled apartment project in the Grove district could become a sports facility.

A self-regulatory organization for the financial industry is investigating a former Wells Fargo Advisors employee who faces federal felony charges of bank fraud and identity theft in St. Louis.