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A sports bar will soon close its original location in Webster Groves.

The new city spokesperson is from Chicago but has lived and worked in Missouri since 2018.

Lauren Anthony grew up in the Metro East cooking with her family and, as a teenager, got her first job at fast-casual chain Lion’s Choice. Now she's executive chef of Commonwealth, located in St. Louis’ Angad Arts Hotel.

Ray Hartmann writes that schoolchildren in St. Louis who happen to be poor, Black and disabled have been awarded a dubious new distinction: They are among the most generous in the nation in reducing risks and providing support for developers.

Spending from large federal grants and a shrinking but substantial state surplus will propel Missouri to record spending in the coming year if lawmakers adopt the $52.7 billion budget proposal from Gov. Mike Parson. Unlike last year’s budget proposal, which included nearly $900 million from general revenue to improve Interstate 70, Parson has no large proposals for using the surplus that was nearly $6.4 billion at the end of December. Instead, increases in ongoing spending, including raises for…

The FAA halted Boeing's plans to expand production of its 737 Max jets as the agency continues to investigate a Max 9 that lost a door-plug panel midflight earlier this month.

In his final address to a joint session of the Missouri General Assembly, Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday pointed to outlawing abortion, increasing infrastructure spending and appointing five statewide office holders as the legacy of his six years in office. “I’ll be leaving here with my head held high,” Parson told lawmakers during his annual State of the State address. Parson can’t seek re-election because of term limits. After years in the legislature, and 18 months as lieutenant governor,…

Experts are cautiously optimistic that cannabis will be removed from the country’s most restrictive category of drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, after federal researchers earlier this month said marijuana has medical benefits and isn’t as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances.

In a call with financial analysts on Tuesday, Jim Lally, president and CEO of Enterprise Bank & Trust's parent company, said the Clayton-based bank has stopped originating new credit relationships in the agricultural sector and will wind down its approximately $200 million portfolio over the next few years.

The St. Louis-based pet food maker bought two Atlanta-area manufacturing facilities that it previously operated from under a long-term lease.

Tourism agency Explore St. Louis is seeking $20 million more from the city of St. Louis for work on the expansion of the America's Center tourism complex downtown.

The 29 Major League Soccer clubs combined are worth an estimated $19.7 billion, according to the report by sports business publication Sportico. Here's where St. Louis City SC ranks.

The Boulder, Colorado-based fast-casual restaurant chain is known for its meals in a bowl, crafted from fruit, topped with granola and honey and blended with protein, vitamins and other ingredients.

A whistleblower alleges Boeing is to blame for the door plug issues on an Alaska Airlines jet.

TierPoint, a St. Louis-based information technology services provider, has hired a new executive to lead its sales operations.

United States Steel Corp. in a regulatory filing previewed its case for approval by shareholders in a special meeting coming sometime this year.

The feds said Wednesday they'd indicted an ex-professional basketball player for pandemic loan fraud.

To lead its first office location outside St. Louis, the commercial real estate firm has hired a veteran executive whose led growth initiatives for multiple retail chains.

Legislation seeking to create a “parents bill of rights” in Missouri was amended in committee Tuesday morning to add prohibitions on transgender students accessing restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. A House hearing on standalone bills that sought to regulate school bathrooms took up the majority of a nearly nine-hour meeting last week. Missourians haven’t had a chance to testify on bathroom restrictions in the Senate this year, a fact that irked Democrats…

Audiences love to be surprised, and the fact that so little is known about St. Louis means we have an audience poised to be surprised, writes the leader of the Missouri Historical Society.