"The difference between 99% and a total solar eclipse is literally night and day," explained Will Snyder, manager of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center.
Synder's answer may not be what you want to read, if there is something keeping you out of the path of totality. But he said a partial eclipse is still worth seeing: "A partial eclipse is a cool experience, you see part of the sun's light blocked."
Unlike people in totality, who will get to lose the glasses for a…
Josh Schertz, the 2024 MVC Coach of the Year and the Hugh Durham National Coach of the Year, will be formally announced Monday as the new head coach of the Saint Louis University Billikens men's basketball team, the university said Saturday.
“I could not be more excited to be named the head coach at Saint Louis University,” Schertz said in a press release.
SLU will introduce Schertz during a news conference open to the public at 10 a.m. Monday at Chaifetz Arena.
Schertz succeeds Travis Ford,…
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.
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.
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