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Illinois launched a $14 million New Stores in Food Deserts Program Tuesday to encourage new development of grocery stores in food desert areas.

A bill that would make Planned Parenthood ineligible to receive reimbursements from the state’s Medicaid program passed out of the Missouri Senate early Wednesday morning after an 11-hour Democratic filibuster. The bill now returns to the House, where it can be sent to Gov. Mike Parson to sign into law. This legislation, originally filed by Republican state Rep. Cody Smith of Carthage, is nearly identical to a bill filed by state Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, a Republican from Arnold, which was…

The company behind Fruity Pebbles, Honey-Comb and Honey Bunches of Oats is entering the Dallas metro area after making what could be the largest industrial deal in the region so far this year.

Laumeier Sculpture Park in south St. Louis County said it has laid off seven staff members as funding has decreased.

Centene said in a statement that Meridian has 27 years of experience “developing and maintaining a Medicaid network in Michigan.”

The chairman, founder and CEO of a Clayton-based firm has added to the more than $30 million in shares he’s purchased in the past two years.

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri thinks he’s found a path for stalled tax legislation that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore business tax breaks that are expired or have sunset under the 2017 tax law. Hawley’s idea is to attach the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to the tax bill to entice his party colleagues to pass it through the upper chamber — including top tax writer and radiation compensation champion Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho. The House…

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to squash a nearly eight-month-old program that has waived $1.2 billion in student loans for 153,000 borrowers and limited the payment amounts for 8 million others.  He is joined by the attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s SAVE Plan, an income-driven…

St. Louis has been chosen to participate in the 2024 Startup World Cup, a global contest awarding $1 million to its winner.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page wants the government to approve a nearly $100,000 contract with political operative Mike Kelley's firm, meant to "inform" voters about a bond issue that could be on the November ballot to replace the Roos government building in Clayton.

Donna “DeDe” DeWitt Lambert, a member of the Cardinals ownership group and sister to club Chairman and CEO Bill DeWitt Jr., died April 6.

The company intends to tear down an existing structure to build a new two-story building, while also looking for new locations across the region to open branches.

The Creve Coeur City Council on Monday night approved incentives for a developer’s near-$1 billion plan for part of the Bayer campus.

Commercial Development Co. plans to redevelop the 49-acre former Columbia Steel Casting Co. plant in North Portland.

The stock market's pandemic recovery and soaring salaries fueled by the turnover tsunami led to a surge in million-dollar earners. Here's how many joined the $1 million club.

Core & Main Inc. (NYSE: CNM), the Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, said Monday it is acquiring a Kentucky distributor of polyethylene pipe.

Several St. Louisans — and others with ties to the St. Louis region — ranked on Forbes' 2024 list of the world's billionaires.

Jason Brown, son of the late Brown & Crouppen founder Ron Brown, has sued the law firm, claiming it owes Ron's estate.

Over the last couple of years, the secretary of state’s office has gone from something of a sleepy spot among Missouri’s statewide elected offices to the nexus of great Republican concern.

The building has been offered for sale, raising questions about its redevelopment plan.