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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.

A push by workers in a St. Louis marijuana facility to form a union could have national ramifications on labor law, with the company hoping to block their effort by asking the federal government to intervene. At issue is a group of “post-harvest workers” at BeLeaf Medical’s Sinse cultivation facility in St. Louis. They have been trying to form a union since September but have thus far been blocked by their employer’s continuous legal challenges. The company argues the employees at its Sinse…

Revenue and operating income grew for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2023, according to an annual report detailing the finances of Major League Baseball franchises.

The Business Journal's Executive Network program brings new corporate leaders together with their peers. Meet five of the latest participants.

Thousands gathered downtown hours before Thursday’s 3:15 p.m. first pitch, braving 40-degree temperatures as they awaited the Budweiser Clydesdales to make their annual loop around Busch Stadium, beginning baseball season in St. Louis.

Tax incentives for a $125 million Downtown West hotel project threatened by a union dispute were given the green light by St. Louis aldermen Thursday after further talks with the developer.

UMB Financial is the holding company of UMB Bank, one of the largest in the St. Louis region. Based in Kansas City, the new president of consumer banking oversees retail, private and mortgage banking in addition to her marketing, communication and sales support responsibilities.

Survey results indicate only 25% of people outside St. Louis believe we have a "good" or "excellent" startup friendly business community. One startup founder thinks they're wrong, and that we need to invest more.