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The city of St. Louis on Monday sued Missouri in federal court here, seeking to block parts of a state law allowing for a takeover of its police department.

The schedule has been set for the international soccer competition that this summer will bring a match to Energizer Park, the home of Major League Soccer team St. Louis City SC.

St. Louis Mayor-elect Cara Spencer made more cabinet picks Monday, ahead of her inauguration Tuesday, including public safety director.

In Missouri’s massive marijuana recall two years ago, regulators pulled 62,000 products off the shelves that contained a THC concentrate the state deemed a “potential threat to health and safety.” Last week, the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation added another 6,000 products to that list that should have been pulled in 2023 because they were all made with an ingredient produced by the company at the heart of the recall, Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. The new “threats” were…

The United Football League, which includes the St. Louis Battlehawks, for the second consecutive year will host its championship game at The Dome at America's Center in downtown St. Louis.

Thousands of hockey fans came downtown Saturday to take in the Frozen Four, with a fan festival held at Union Station and the national championship game held at Enterprise Center.

Katie Murphy, Ph.D., was an undergraduate research assistant at Stanford University when she discovered her passion for corn. As a first-year chemistry major seeking any available paid research opportunity, she had serendipitously landed a spot in the lab of one of the world’s premier corn experts, Virginia Walbot. “I fell in love with corn,” Murphy says. “I realized that plants are way better at chemistry than I ever could be — they’re doing chemistry all the time.” After graduating…

A shuttered brewery in St. Louis County is looking for a buyer.

An affordable housing developer has plans to renovate two apartment properties in the city of St. Louis, projects estimated to cost a combined $60 million.

Brad Dean said he's spent much of his first five weeks as president and CEO of tourism agency Explore St. Louis talking to St. Louis residents on defining a "brand" for the city.

A multifamily investor has purchased a Chicago-based company’s portfolio of Midwest apartment complexes for $500 million, in an acquisition that includes two St. Louis properties.

The NCAA’s Frozen Four is back in St. Louis this week for the first time since 2007. Could a new, local hockey team make it to the event some day?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denied Thursday that a $10 million payment to the Hope Florida Foundation that was part of an agreement with St. Louis-based health care giant Centene over Medicaid payments was illegal and called it a “cherry on top” instead. The settlement agreement, signed Sept. 27, 2024, was not disclosed to the Florida Legislature. Leading House Republicans suggested the payment to the foundation, championed by First Lady Casey DeSantis, could be illegal because it wasn’t disclosed…

The organization plants to continue with its grantmaking schedule, but will have to reduce the 'size and frequency' of many programs going forward.

A St. Louis-based cleaning franchisor with more than 270 locations nationwide has moved to new headquarters facility and put its longtime headquarters building up for sale.

Robert Litz, 67, said the office operated under the USA&M name after the acquisition by Miles in late 2023 because it made a point to clients. He knew the name eventually would change to Miles based on its national marketing approach.

If something published in this newspaper caught your eye in the past decade, there’s a decent chance it was because of Nick Pistor. That’s odd, I’ll admit. Nick made his name as a reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which is, of course, not this newspaper. We met many years ago while competing on coverage of City Hall – his specialty. There was Rams drama. There were spending fights. Tantrums, too. If you stick around St. Louis long enough, the stories recycle, sometimes with only…

Missouri’s child care crisis was debated again Wednesday, with a bill changing provisions for licensed in-home child care facilities passing through the state House. State law allows up to two children aged 5 years or older that are related to the operator of a child care facility to be exempt from the maximum number of children for which the facility is licensed. A bill sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Farnan, a Republican from Stanberry, removes the age minimum with hope to increase space in day…

“We’re expecting payroll hiring to come close to grinding to a halt this year, which we think would push up the unemployment rate to 4.6% in the fourth quarter," Wells Fargo Senior Economist Sarah House told the bank’s clients.

Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, Sam Fender and Public Enemy are just some of the artists who will be taking the stage at the 2025 Evolution Festival. The weekend-long festival returns to Forest Park for its third year on Sept. 27-28. Evolution announced its "diverse, multigenerational" music lineup on Thursday morning, which features over 30 national, regional and local artists that span multiple genres. Evolution offers more than just music. The festival claims to be a celebration of St. Louis culture,…