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A New Jersey company that purchased a newly built St. Louis-area apartment complex for $70 million is suing its former owners, alleging shoddy construction and inflated occupancy numbers.

Amptify, a St. Louis-based developer of software to provide rehabilitation for those with hearing loss, is being acquired, a goal the company has been working toward.

The Nashville operator has plans to open a new location at City Foundry in 2025.

The U.S. Air Force on Thursday announced that a decision on whether to build a sixth generation of fighter jet – a potentially critical issue for The Boeing Co’s defense operations in the St. Louis area – will be made by the Trump administration.

The lawyer is the latest professional to go against the grain of Thomas Wolfe’s novel “You Can’t Go Home Again.”

Ex-St. Louis tourism chief Kitty Ratcliffe has landed a spot on the board governing St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

Missouri’s trigger law banning nearly all abortions remains in place. But at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Amendment 3 will go into effect. The constitutional amendment, which received 51.6% of the nearly 3 million votes cast, prohibits the legislature from regulating abortion prior to the point of fetal viability — generally seen as the point at which a fetus can likely survive outside the womb without extraordinary measures. Planned Parenthood officials said they have providers and staff prepared to…

Local youth services nonprofit Boys Hope Girls Hope of St. Louis has hired Michelle Abel as its new executive director.

St. Louis' gross domestic product growth from 2022 to 2023 ranked 16th among the biggest U.S. metros, according to new estimates.

Neon Greens, Josh Smith's quick-service salad concept in The Grove, uses a hydroponic growing method to grow its own lettuce on site. Here's how his theatrical training led him to become an entrepreneur.

The July 4th parade held downtown for more than 140 years will be replaced by a different parade in 2025. But a Fourth of July event still will take place, officials said.

The philanthropic arm of managed health care giant Centene Corp. said it will donate $3 million over three years to strengthen community health centers nationwide, in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers.

An effort by Lambert airport officials to sign a formal agreement with a peer-to-peer rental car service ran into opposition from officials who saw the agreement as unfair to traditional rental car companies.

Former Missouri Congressman Billy Long was tapped on Wednesday evening by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Internal Revenue Service. Trump called Long — who served six terms representing a Southwest Missouri district — a “consummate people person,” adding “taxpayers and the wonderful employees of the IRS will love having Billy at the helm.” Long was one of the first elected officials to jump on the “Trump train,” a phrase he claims to have coined. When most considered Trump’s…

A conservative U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to side with Tennessee Wednesday in upholding the state’s ban on gender affirming care for children, a case likely to set legal precedent on equal protection for transgender minors. A decision from the court isn’t expected until June 2025, but Republican-appointed justices such as Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh tipped their hands on how they would rule during three hours of oral arguments in Washington, D.C. They were countered…

Legislation that aims to spur downtown office-to-residential conversion projects has been refiled by lawmakers ahead of the Missouri General Assembly’s 2025 session.

Though roughly half of the country's largest public companies by market cap report providing personal or home security for their top executives, UnitedHealth does not.

A $25 million upgrade to the Southwest Airlines baggage claim at Lambert airport could start construction soon, pending approval of city officials.

Two St. Louis-area law firms said Wednesday they have uncovered the source of a massive E. coli outbreak. Taylor Farms California, located in Salinas, California, was allegedly the source of the outbreak, according to amended lawsuits filed Wednesday by Simon Law Firm and Lange Law Firm. The outbreak has sickened 115 people in Missouri, including 13 hospitalizations, the St. Louis County Department of Public Health said. "This makes the Lange Law Firm and Simon Law the first-to-file against the…

The businessman launched what's now a sizable Clayton firm, was an area philanthropist and served as U.S. ambassador to Belgium.