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Harvey’s Coffee and Cocktails, a new coffee and cocktail lounge at 2706 Olive St. in the city’s Midtown neighborhood, opens Friday.

The 2024 program honors 11 startups, companies and organizations that reached key milestones in the last year. In addition, we are honoring one individual with the Legacy Entrepreneur Award this year.

The company, led by a former Anheuser-Busch and Schnuck Markets executive, relocated from California.

Ascension, the St. Louis-based, multistate health system, said there’s no evidence that a recent cyberattack resulted in data being taken from electronic health records and other clinical systems, but hackers did steal files "from a small number of servers" that may contain protected health information.

Rodgers Townsend, one of St. Louis’ largest advertising agencies, is shutting down.

For the third time since April 2023, the global law firm has hired partners away from a St. Louis-based competitor for its Clayton office, a key part of the law firm's growth strategy focusing on the Midwest.

(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker touts the elimination of the state's grocery tax, but others say the plan eliminates taxpayer protections from local tax increases. Illinois’ 1% state grocery tax will go away Jan. 1, 2026, but local governments will be able to restore it locally without a referendum under a proposal awaiting Pritzker's signature. In 2022, an election year, Pritzker proposed a 12-month reduction of the state’s grocery tax from 1% to zero. Funds were increased…

For a company to experience triple-digit growth it usually comes down to some combination of risk and guile, a willingness to take a gamble mixed with the cunning to make that gamble work.

A company created 20 years ago with $3,600 borrowed from the founder's wife now sits at the top of the Business Journal’s annual list of the St. Louis region’s fastest-growing private companies.

The St. Louis Blues said Thursday that a former left-winger will become its general manager in 2026.

“I think that we’re really positioned to serve as a front door to the region and make sure that people aren’t getting a dated view of St. Louis,” officials said.

The Army Corps said that areas on and near the banks of Coldwater Creek, and adjacent to the closed Jana Elementary School, were "safe from a radiological standpoint." But residents remain skeptical.

A recent filing in the Red Lobster bankruptcy case showed the Orlando-based restaurant chain may have to close 120 more restaurants nationwide, including another in the St. Louis area.

The recent UM System Board of Curators petition to remove racial and ethnic criteria from 53 donated scholarships and funds is a final step in a year-long process that has already removed such criteria from millions of dollars in student aid. University of Missouri spokesperson Christian Basi said the university awarded $12.3 million in institutional financial aid with a race and ethnicity component in the 2022-23 academic year — about 6.4% of the university’s financial aid budget. In the same…

The $1.2 billion Gateway South development has named the broker who will work to lease up to 500,000 square feet of planned Class A office space focused on tenants in the construction industry.

BJC HealthCare is six months into its merger with Saint Luke's Health System. Here's what the systems have learned so far.

Following months of increasingly public attempts to get in contact with former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Missouri state Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick finally met with her Wednesday. Trevor Fox, communications director for the Missouri state auditor's office, confirmed the office met with Gardner but had no further details to share. Fitzpatrick called a news conference in early May during which he told reporters his office couldn't find Gardner and asked anyone who knew where she was to…

A Chesterfield-based water and wastewater infrastructure repair company this week announced two acquisitions.

A new restaurant whose menu will include New York-style bagels opens Thursday at Ballpark Village.

A former president of Express Scripts, the St. Louis-based pharmacy benefits management arm of a Cigna subsidiary, is still barred from taking a job with CVS Health that she was named to over a year ago, according to an appeals court ruling.