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The Dome at America's Center later this year will get new turf, coming after Mizzou fans last year ripped the appearance of the current surface.

A St. Louis-based audio-visual integration firm has acquired a company in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

A report released last month said there were 158 homicides in 2023, compared to 200 in 2022 and the recent peak of 263 in 2020. Police Chief Robert Tracy said 158 is “still a lot of murders.”

The plan could see a coffee shop reopen in summer or fall, the site's landlord said.

The St. Louis Battlehawks have made more seats inside The Dome at America’s Center available for purchase, a decision the United Football League team says stems from demand for tickets ahead of its 2024 season.

Eric P. Seiler Sr., who built family-owned Seiler Instrument into one of St. Louis' largest private companies, died Jan. 7 at age 95.

Kansas City police said a dispute between several people led to the shooting on Wednesday at the Chiefs Super Bowl rally. One person was killed, and more than 20 were injured.

Missouri sold $1.3 billion worth of cannabis in 2023, its first year of adult use sales, making it the sixth-largest market in the nation.

The man accused of causing a crash that killed two tourists after a downtown St. Louis concert early Wednesday had no criminal record, St. Louis' police chief said Thursday.

He hand-carved the name and lettering for the Ted Simmons statue outside Busch Stadium, was part of a team that re-did the gates to the Ottoman Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and sculpted the faces for the Korean War Memorial in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

A few weeks ago, the candidate posted a video on X, formerly Twitter. It showed her wielding a flame-thrower, and burning books about LBGT issues.

Terry Briggs, who had served as Bridgeton's mayor since 2015, has died, the city said Wednesday. City Administrator Kevin Bookout said Briggs died unexpectedly earlier Wednesday. A cause of death was not announced. Briggs, 68, was first elected mayor in 2015 and reelected in 2019 and 2023. "Mayor Briggs will be remembered not only for his accomplishments in office but also for his kindness and genuine concern for the well-being of others. His passing is a profound loss for our community, and his…

The Kansas City Chiefs celebrated back-to-back Super Bowl victories on an unseasonably warm day that was marred by a shooting as the otherwise peaceful event ended.

The first contract for reconstruction of Interstate 70, for a 20-mile stretch from Columbia to Kingdom City, was awarded Wednesday by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission. The $405 million contract is part of a planned $2.8 billion project that will add a lane of traffic in both directions from Wentzville in St. Charles County to Blue Springs in Jackson County. The work awarded Wednesday to Millstone Weber of St. Charles for construction and Jacobs of Dallas for engineering is…

Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked lawmakers’s efforts to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. The legislature included a line in the 2022 state budget to spend $0 for any Medicaid-covered services if the provider also offers abortions or is affiliated with an abortion provider.  Nearly all abortions are illegal in Missouri. The two Planned Parenthood affiliates operating in the state – Planned Parenthood Great…

Next Missouri, a statewide coalition that advocates for legislation that benefits entrepreneurship, is lobbying for legislation that would offer tax credits for angel investments.

Stock awards have long been exempted from St. Louis' 1% earnings tax, but an alderwoman is trying again to remove the exemption.

The concept was first launched as a ghost kitchen last January.

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.