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The Missouri Senate voted against allowing video lottery games Wednesday evening, but it was unable to get a bill authorizing sports wagering to a vote.

Jay Ashcroft, Missouri’s secretary of state and son of one of the state’s most well known former elected officials, announced Thursday morning he was joining the 2024 race for governor. In a statement released on social media, Ashcroft said “Missouri stands at a crossroads.” “Red states like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, even Indiana and Arkansas have become examples of conservative leadership while Missouri Republicans, who control every statewide office and have supermajorities in both…

Longtime tech executive Bob Lee, a former St. Louisan, was fatally stabbed early Tuesday morning in San Francisco. The 43-year-old was chief product officer at MobileCoin, a San Francisco cryptocurrency company.

West County has seen a huge jump in its office space put up for sublease, a new report says, while office vacancy rose in Clayton and downtown.

Moneta Group Investment Advisors launched its national growth plan in 2019 by opening an office in Denver. Now it's growing that office, merging Everland Sandry LLC in Denver into the growing Clayton-based wealth management firm.

St. Louis-based development company The Staenberg Group on Wednesday said The Hub, the $4 million outdoor event and gathering space that will serve as the centerpiece of The District, will open early this summer in Chesterfield.

Just five of some 66 St. Louis-area marijuana tax questions were rejected Tuesday, mostly by small cities in north St. Louis County.

ITW Labels, a St. Charles-based label producer, has been acquired by OMNI Systems of Cleveland.

Edge Centres, an Australian-based operator of data centers, has entered the U.S. market through the acquisition of a St. Louis firm Hyson International.

Firms in the contracting industry are "held hostage" by supply chain shortages and the resulting material delays, according to local executives in the industry. Here's how companies are getting creative to complete their projects.

Ferguson-based industrial technology and software company Emerson named Vidya Ramnath as senior vice president and chief marketing officer, effective June 1.

A St. Louis Circuit Court jury last month ordered a Rhode Island firm to pay $7.7 million to a man who lost his right eye in an accident involving one of its staple guns.

The HFW Cos., a growing, St. Louis-based professional services firm targeting the architecture, engineering and construction sector for investments, has expanded with the addition of a Las Vegas-based civil engineering firm.

The settlement amount is a jump from a previous proposal of $2 billion.

Four of five aldermanic candidates endorsed by St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones notched victories on Tuesday, as a new 14-member Board of Aldermen took shape.

Huttig Building Products, a Town and Country-based building materials and millwork distributor that was publicly held before it was sold in May 2022, is rebranding under its new parent company's name.

The book brings to light so many experiences from which one can learn how to communicate clearly by understanding the other person’s feelings.

We've urged readers to share their ideas on St. Louis' most vexing problems, like the Railway Exchange building downtown. They've done so, enabling others to build from them.

About 110 employees of Commerce Bank are expected to move in June into the bank’s new office tower, the latest addition to downtown Clayton’s skyline at 8001 Forsyth Blvd.

Saint Louis University has named a former Mizzou professor who's currently a Virginia Commonwealth engineering school administrator as the inaugural dean of its new School of Science and Engineering, which was launched last year.