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The tornado also destroyed an office building as well as 25 soccer goals and 10 benches. The damage is estimated to be more than $8 million.

Missouri Democrats stonewalled a Republican effort to roll back a voter-approved paid sick leave law, blocking action in the Senate for more than nine hours before GOP leadership adjourned the chamber around 1 a.m. Thursday. A bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, a Republican from Jefferson City, would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law requiring most employers to provide paid sick time off for hundreds of thousands of qualifying workers starting May 1. Bernskoetter said Proposition…

The lawyer-turned-nonprofit leader talks about returning to St. Louis and founding her advocacy group, and a big accomplishment her organization had recently.

The St. Louis County lawmakers have now OK'd some $3.2 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds for a North County farm.

The fate of the museum's project to digitize Holocaust survivor stores is much more certain now, a museum spokesperson says.

This week's Arch City Report Podcast examines a family's quest to improve the South Kingshighway corridor, through projects, like the Golden Hoosier restaurant, that are anything but bland. But first, we talk about new St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer's cabinet. And later, we'll preview an event that will feature leaders who are either directly involved in investing in advanced manufacturing or whose work already stands out as an example in the field. The stories discussed this week are: Cara Spencer…

A subsidiary of the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership recently closed on a $4 million loan through a federal tax credit program to Alton Steel, one of the region's largest manufacturers.

A longtime Clayton restaurant plans to move to a new location in the city.

A state senator is taking aim at colleges and universities in Missouri who ask prospective students or job candidates to explain how they would contribute to an institution’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals. The legislation would prohibit schools from requiring the submission of a diversity, equity and inclusion statement for admission or employment. It would also prohibit the preferential consideration of applicants on the basis of an unsolicited submission of a DEI statement. According…

A more than 100-year-old St. Louis-based manufacturer of school uniforms has been sold to a children's clothing company.

Law firm Baker Sterchi is moving from Broadway Tower, 100 N. Broadway, to the Deloitte Building at 100 S. 4th St. It will occupy the Deloitte Building’s ninth floor, leasing 22,800 square feet.

Troubled radio station KDHX now wants an auction for its major assets held in bankruptcy court, following the emergence of a competing bid for its Federal Communications Commission license and broadcast tower.

Lanter Delivery Systems, a St. Louis-based provider of overnight delivery services for businesses, recently announced some executive changes.

Berto and Ivan Garcia are bringing new life to South Kingshighway with $25 million in projects, like the Golden Hoosier restaurant, that are anything but bland.

American Airlines and AT&T are partnering to offer free Wi-Fi on the carrier's flights.

Greater St. Louis Inc. said Wednesday it has a chief strategy officer and another executive.

China is a key market for Boeing, the American aerospace giant. Now that country's government has taken the next step in the tariff escalation.

The St. Louis Blues clinched a berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 6-1 win Tuesday against the Utah Hockey Club.

A proposed constitutional amendment that would ban abortion is one step closer to the statewide ballot after it won initial approval of the Missouri House on Tuesday. After four hours of floor debate, the House passed the proposed amendment with 94 in favor and 50 against. Two Republicans — Speaker Jon Patterson and state Rep. Bill Allen — joined with 48 Democrats in opposition. As lawmakers prepared to vote, protesters with Abortion Action Missouri began chanting from the upper chamber, unfurling…

Two restaurants are suing their south St. Louis County landlord for breach of contract and fraud, which they say prevented one of the restaurants from opening.