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A quickly expanding restaurant concept centered around healthy eating and operated by the ownership of the Cheesecake Factory has set a date for the opening of its first Missouri location, in the St. Louis area.

Dr. Virginia Weldon, a groundbreaking physician and nonprofit fundraiser as well as a former executive with Monsanto Co. and Washington University, died May 23. She was 88.

An industrial gas supplier is planning a $70 million expansion in St. Louis, a move it says will add more than 30 jobs.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis has selected a new dean to replace Ann Taylor at its College of Education.

The three-judge panel also ruled on whether the issue deserves class-action status, a decision that will impact how easily eligible workers can request earnings tax refunds.

Soaring home prices and stubbornly high interest rates have left many markets out of balance. Here's what to know in St. Louis.

Two days after the Illinois General Assembly was scheduled to adjourn its spring session, Democrats in the state Senate advanced a $53.1 billion budget to the House on Sunday night, where leaders expect it to pass without changes. The fiscal year 2025 spending plan, which came together over a stretch of late nights and closed-door dealmaking, spends $400 million more than what Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposed in his February budget address. Despite controlling the governor’s mansion and both chambers…

Easing access to Ozempic, other weight loss drugs, is key to solving rural obesity crisis, writes former Missouri State Rep. Dan Shaul

Max Kleeman and Drake Hill are engaged in separate 18-month searches for each to acquire a small business.

Here are a few properties for sale or sublease.

St. Louis biotechnology startup Wugen, which has raised more than $200 million in venture funding as it develops cancer-fighting drugs, has received two key regulatory designations it says will “expedite” evaluation of a drug candidate.

The city of St. Louis said Friday that it's cleared and secured the former hospital once known as St. Alexius.

Gateway Fiber, a Wright City-based developer of fiber broadband networks, has secured $175.5 million in debt financing it says will aid its expansion into new markets.

The Manchester Road property that will soon house the new restaurants was formerly home to Beast Butcher & Block, which shuttered in April 2023.

As the cicadas have emerged, my friend in Olivette dealt with huge numbers of the insects. But in the city, I've seen none.

Ascension, which was hit with a ransomware attack at the beginning of May, is hoping to make headway on its recovery over Memorial Day Weekend. Here's the latest updates from the hospital system.

Under the proposed settlement, schools will be able to share revenues up to around $22 million annually with NCAA athletes.

After years of negotiations and continued opposition from service providers, Illinois appears poised to prohibit employers from using a federal exemption that allows them to pay individuals with disabilities less than the minimum wage. The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established minimum wage law, but created an exemption for businesses, rehabilitation and residential care facilities to pay disabled workers less than minimum wage if they obtain a special certificate permitted in Section…

Several considerations had to be taken for the Muny, which dates to 1919, to host its first concert in more than 30 years.

Construction is expected to begin soon on a long-planned, multimillion-dollar project for infrastructure work on a stretch of Seventh Street downtown.