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The U.S. Department of Justice is investing Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis over the misspending of federal security money, according to a report from Punchbowl.

United Steelworkers opened up another front in its fight against the $14.9 billion proposed acquisition of United States Steel, saying winning bidder Nippon Steel Corp. hasn’t provided enough information about the financial condition of its U.S. subsidiary.

A Georgia man with connections to St. Louis pleaded guilty Monday to charges related to fraudulently obtaining a pandemic loan, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Niche Food Group has hired a chief operating officer to oversee the revival and expansion of a soon-to-open restaurant concept.

A bank is seeking a receiver for a St. Louis apartment complex that houses low-income elderly residents, saying that its woes stem from increased costs and an inability to secure timely inspections and occupancy permits from the city during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Chesterfield-based logistics services company has hired a new CEO with experience in providing outsourced managed transportation services and driving digital transformation.

The project would be located on an industrially zoned site that’s currently vacant except for a private drive, city documents show.

The closures, which only affect single pub locations for two different craft beer brands, come at a time when the overall beer market is shrinking.

The board of directors of Spire, the St. Louis-based natural gas utility company, has elected a veteran of the investment banking and commodities industries as its first new chair in nine years.

The Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur programming arm of Saint Louis University’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, has created a new startup accelerator program to help current students and recent alumni launch businesses.

There is one week left to submit your nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2024 HR Awards program. These awards recognize the important work individuals, companies and organizations do in the field of human resources to make area firms successful. Submit your nomination here. The deadline to nominate someone for this program is Monday, Feb. 5. All HR Awards honorees — companies and people — must be based in the St. Louis area, which includes the city of St. Louis and St. Louis, St.…

HOK selected a senior principal from its St. Louis headquarters office to take over leadership of the architecture firm's Kansas City branch.

The city of St. Louis may condemn a building, weeks after a police car crashed into it. Bar:PM located at 7109 S. Broadway is still boarded up from the damage but remains open for customers. On Dec. 18, 2023, Police said the officer driving was heading too close to a parked car and was distracted by the police radio. He tried to correct himself but lost control of the vehicle. Now the city is giving the owner of the building where the bar is located until Feb. 19 to fix the damage to the bar. The…

The Formula 1 Powerboat Championship, which stages an annual series of U.S. powerboat races, will host an event on the Mississippi River this summer that's expected to draw 20,000 attendees.

The celebrity restaurant concept would replace Gerard Craft’s Cinder House restaurant, which shuttered earlier this month.

St. Louis-based startup Juristat, which has developed software that provides statistical analysis for patent applications, says investment from a private equity firm will help expand its team and services.

U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski is urging U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) and Nippon Steel to consider using new federal grants to keep the Granite City mill open by making it more energy efficient through Inflation Reduction Act incentives.

NutriFormance, a personal training gym and fitness facility in Frontenac, will relocate to Creve Coeur, ideally by mid-May assuming current construction timelines hold, its owners said.

A Clayton-based leadership and human resources consulting company is now solely owned by the family of a co-founder.

Anheuser-Busch InBev on Thursday said it would return to the Super Bowl this year with ads for three of its brands: Budweiser, Michelob Ultra and Bud Light.