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Perficient, the Town and Country digital consultancy that was taken private last fall in a nearly $3 billion deal, is seeking a new CEO.

City SC, which begins its regular season Saturday at Energizer Park, said Tuesday its new food vendors for the 2025 Major League Soccer season are Pappy’s Smokehouse, Damn Fine Hand Pies, Bolyard’s Meat and Provisions and Chicken Scratch.

The city of St. Louis’ Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority, which is seeking to gain control of Railway Exchange Building downtown, has appealed the sale price set for the property in eminent domain proceedings.

The nonprofit research institution hired a plant geneticist from the University of Cambridge in England to take over the organization later this year.

Missouri Technology Corp. (MTC) has committed $4 million in funding in its most recent round of venture capital investments, including eight St. Louis-area startups, as well approving $2 million in grants to strengthen the state's ecosystem. The organization also promoted its leader to a newly created post.

In a world where quality home care often feels unattainable, Woven Home Care is rewriting the narrative. Based in St. Louis, we have rapidly become a beacon of hope for our country’s aging population, their families and our employees who we affectionately call our “Weavers.” With a unique mission — "To make home the safest, most effective place to receive care" — we are not only meeting the demands of a growing eldercare market but are simultaneously setting new benchmarks for how businesses…

Fifty years of anti-abortion laws in Missouri have been struck down as unconstitutional over the last two months, culminating Friday with a Jackson County judge blocking clinic licensing requirements. Three days later, Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion activists gathered outside Planned Parenthood locations across the state to say they have no intention of retreating. “I’m here to tell you the Missouri supermajority of Republicans will not stand for this,” said state Sen. Mary Elizabeth…

St. Louis Community Credit Union has attracted about $30 million in deposits since launching the Community Impact Deposit program in 2022. The dollars have been used to fund a portion of the more than $40 million in business loans issued during the same period.

St. Louis' chances of scoring a Women's National Basketball Association team sooner rather than later have dimmed.

In the wake of FedEx’s closure of one of its warehouses in the St. Louis area, the building's owner said it’s found a new partial tenant to take the space.

A visit to a San Francisco bakery led to the creation of one of the nation's most successful and ubiquitous restaurant chains and helped usher in the era of fast-casual restaurants.

The decision comes after the owner of the high-end mall sued to evict the movie theater.

A coffee shop that’s also a branch of one of the nation’s biggest banks is among the new retail options at a St. Louis-area mall.

A Missouri judge on Friday blocked a licensing requirement for abortion clinics that providers argued was a key obstacle to renewing access to the procedure across the state. Hours later, Planned Parenthood clinics announced they would begin offering abortion services in Missouri. “Abortion care will be restored immediately,” said Emily Wales, President and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “The people voted, the court responded and we will do our part: serving…

Benson Hill Inc., the St. Louis-based agriculture technology firm, has furloughed dozens of employees and relocated its headquarters office, as it sold off more assets.

A state-court judge on Friday ruled that KDHX cannot terminate the membership of 16 people from the community radio station, ahead of an upcoming meeting.

A developer working on a project to renovate a former North City health facility into low-income housing is contesting St. Louis' rescission of federal funds meant to help.

Two new restaurants have opened in recent weeks in downtown St. Louis.

Missouri lawmakers have rekindled a crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion programs with a handful of bills seeking to outlaw DEI in state-funded entities. In 2022, just two bills named DEI as a target. But the number grew to 14 in 2024. None have been signed into law. Within the first month of this year’s legislative session, four bills had been filed targeting diversity, equity and inclusion in the title with others pushing for the same restrictions without explicitly naming DEI. State…

St. Louis City SC will sport a new, buttoned-up look when the Major League Soccer franchise takes to the pitch in the 2025 Major League Soccer season.