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The steakhouse on Tuesday opened a new location in O’Fallon, Illinois.

A plan to make it easier to open homeless shelters in St. Louis failed Friday at the Board of Aldermen.

The growth of major industries across metro Phoenix has led to a big expansion for electrical supplier Graybar.

Joe’s Café, a music venue at 6014 Kingsbury Ave. in the city’s Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood, is set to reopen after zoning disputes caused it to close for three months.

For so many, college and its degrees are truly important. For many others, their interests and talents lie in other areas, such as being an electrician, a carpenter, a plumber, simply someone who can build things and fix things.

When the Clayton firm's charitable priorities changed, an official said it wouldn't mean less giving in St. Louis. But its local giving took a sharp drop last year, a Business Journal analysis shows.

Centene Corp., the managed health care provider, reduced its real estate footprint across the nation by 78% over the past two years, according to a regulatory filing.

Safety National Casualty Corp., a Maryland Heights-based provider of specialty insurance and reinsurance, recently made changes to its executive and senior management lineup.

The Women’s Business Development Center, a nonprofit focused on women’s economic empowerment in the Midwest, has launched a new transportation-focused resource center in St. Louis.

After years of growth, hiring by technology firms has slowed locally and nationally. But it’s a “dip” that isn’t expected to cloud the longer term job opportunities local technology and workforce officials said Tuesday at St. Louis Inno’s State of Innovation event.

Alaska Airlines officials said in January they would hold the aerospace giant financially accountable for the temporary grounding of its 737 Max 9 fleet.

An Illinois House committee advanced a measure that would end the state’s subminimum wage for tipped workers amid bipartisan opposition this week, but the bill’s sponsor said she’d seek further compromise before presenting it for a vote. Current Illinois law allows employers to pay their tipped workers 60% of the state’s minimum wage. That amounts to $8.40 hourly, compared to the minimum wage of $14 per hour. If their wages plus tips do not equal minimum wage, the employer must make up the…

The fire engine, quite large, was just pulling along the sidewalk and other vehicles, emergency and police, were approaching. I looked back at the entrance to the restaurant and saw that no one, not a soul, must have heard the loud announcement.

Along with the size and color changes, you’ll notice inside the paper we’re making some of the biggest visual changes in over a decade, writes Publisher Robert Bobroff.

St. Louis-area commercial real estate firms say client feedback has led them to acquire related service providers, believing having fewer vendors can simplify projects. But it's not without risks.

Mercy, the Chesterfield-based multistate health system, plans to build a new $650 million hospital complex in Wentzville.

Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovation, which operates as Gates Ag One, said Friday it has opened an office in the Cortex innovation district to serve as its headquarters. Gates Ag One, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Gates Foundation, seeks to advance agricultural research and innovation to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

A nonprofit community center in St. Louis County will undergo a $13 million renovation beginning this month at one of its properties to create a state-of-the-art recreation facility with an adult day center.

Lion’s Choice is introducing a new menu item while also kicking off an aggressive new advertising campaign, cutting several underperforming offerings and preparing for future growth.

The flights are scheduled to run three times a week.