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Gateway Dealer Network, a St. Louis-based provider of compact industrial equipment, has been sold.

The intent of the state earnings tax statute and the city ordinance is to apply the 1% tax to work done in the city, said an attorney representing six plaintiffs who are non-city residents and worked remotely for St. Louis-based businesses.

A multicar crash left at least two people dead and several others injured early Wednesday in St. Louis' Downtown West neighborhood. A car struck multiple vehicles and pedestrians at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the middle of the intersection at North 18th and Olive streets, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. It happened just blocks away from the Enterprise Center, where thousands of people were leaving the Drake and J. Cole concert minutes before. A law enforcement source…

Health care mega-mergers, like one recently completed by BJC HealthCare, lead to higher hospital prices for consumers, experts said. A Business Journal analysis shows the local health system’s prices were already high.

Have you struggled to find the right mentor or are you just looking for a guiding hand to get you through the next phase of your career? The St. Louis Business Journal is again putting together its annual Mentoring Monday event with some of the region's highest-achieving women leaders. You'll get the chance to meet the perfect mentor during our in-person event with nearly 50 mentors in attendance at Third Degree Glass Factory on Monday, Feb. 26, at 8 a.m. Click through the gallery below to…

Creve Coeur-based food technology firm Benson Hill has divested its soy processing business in Creston, Iowa, while also paying off some debt and naming a new chief financial officer.

Ownership is transitioning back to the president of the firm, which will now operate under a new name and is searching for a new headquarters somewhere with the city of St. Louis or St. Louis County.

A replacement was named for the leader of the $3 million business group.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is a key player in the governmental review of the $14.9 billion purchase of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.

Anheuser-Busch says it is continuing contract negotiations with the Teamsters union ahead of a March 1 strike deadline, according to a media report.

Missouri Senate Democrats are blocking a vote on setting a higher threshold for passing constitutional amendments, filibustering a bill they see as a pure Republican power grab. For more than five hours Monday and again for almost six hours on Tuesday, Democrats held the floor to discuss their objections to a proposal to require constitutional amendments on the ballot to pass in five of the state’s eight congressional districts along with achieving a statewide majority. The filibuster ended when…

SBR Bikes & Brews is moving to The District of St. Louis in Chesterfield.

A law firm is moving its downtown office to a high-rise building, in an effort to recruit new hires.

It's set to open in Wildwood this spring, likely before the end of March.

Ahmad Haynes and a handful of employees at BeLeaf Medical’s Sinse Cannabis site in St. Louis anxiously waited for the clock to hit 5 p.m. He and his co-workers had gathered outside the St. Louis Public Library’s Barr branch, where they had cast their votes to unionize earlier that afternoon on Feb. 6. The election came after a hard-fought legal battle that began in September with their employer contesting their eligibility to unionize. Minutes before 5 p.m., they all shuffled into a library…

The clock could be ticking on local ownership of the Earth City practice facility built for the then-St. Louis Rams.

An O’Fallon, Missouri, man who used artificial intelligence to generate almost two dozen fake citations in a legal brief must pay $10,000 in sanctions for wasting the time of his courtroom opponents, the Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a case that originated in St. Charles County, Jonathan Karlen was appealing a decision that he and other defendants must pay more than $311,000 to Molly Kruse, an employee of his company that created websites, for unpaid wages, interest…

The move comes three years after the executive was hired to lead Stifel's independent advisory firm.

Belden Inc., the Clayton-based supplier of network infrastructure products and services, plans to add nearly 100 jobs in an expansion project.

The top executive at St. Patrick Center, a nonprofit providing housing and other services to people who are homeless, plans to step down next month.