One of Missouri’s highest-ranking lawmakers hopes to stop state regulators from forcing electric utilities to charge a premium for power used at times of high demand.
The legislation filed by Senate Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin was inspired by Evergy’s roll out of time-of-use pricing plans to its customers last summer, which included a plan that would have quadrupled customers’ charges for energy used at times of high demand.
The new rates were mandated by the Public Service Commission,…
A release announcing the deal expressed the buyer's interest in taking the Bar K concept nationwide and into Canada. This included moving the headquarters from Kansas City to Arizona.
A wide-ranging bill passed by the state legislature last year banning sleeping on public land was struck down on Tuesday by the Missouri Supreme Court for violating the constitution’s single subject requirement.
Missouri lawmakers last year made sleeping on state-owned land a Class C misdemeanor and restricted state funds for combating homelessness. The legislation was passed as an amendment in a broader bill relating to political subdivisions just before the end of the 2022 session.
Critics…
The number of acres the company's products are used on has increased from 800,00 in 2022 to 3.5 million this year and is projected to reach 11 million acres in 2024, the company said.
Heritage Golf Group, a golf course management firm based outside Washington, D.C., has acquired Old Hickory Golf Club in St. Charles County in a deal that adds to its local holdings.
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital's nurses are preparing to strike next Wednesday unless an agreement is reached with SSM Health.
Union Steward Sarah DeWilde says it’s only been getting harder to keep going.
“We're losing our coworkers. And it's disheartening,” DeWilde said.
This leads them to a second strike that is scheduled to last two days from 7 a.m. Dec 27 to 6:59 a.m. Dec. 29 unless a contract is reached. Union nurses at SLU Hospital have been in negotiations with the hospital…
Missouri’s crackdown on a cannabis company accused of illegally importing THC concentrate could lead to a showdown over the state’s authority to regulate the industry.
Delta Extraction had its license to manufacture cannabis products revoked in November, months after a massive recall pulled more than 60,000 products off the shelves — which the state says were illegally made with a hemp-derived THC concentrate imported from out of state. (THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the compound that gives…
A Kansas City high-rise proposed by St. Louis developer Lux Living seems to have fallen through — potentially its third and biggest project to fail in KC to date.
A former executive vice president of Clayton-based rental car giant Enterprise Mobility has sued a yacht maker over a dispute regarding modifications to a 130-foot yacht he purchased.
Amazon is "in talks to invest" in Diamond Sports Group, a move that would "advance the e-commerce giant’s aggressive push into sports content as it takes on streaming rivals like Disney and Netflix," the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Danny Simmons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1899, said it was too early to know how the $14.1 billion deal for Nippon to acquire U.S. Steel, which is expected to close mid-to-late next year, would affect planned layoffs.
A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department SUV crashed into the front door of a south St. Louis bar early Monday morning, and one of the bar's owners is now facing charges after a confrontation with police.
The owners of Bar:PM at the intersection of Blow Street and South Broadway were asleep above the bar at about 12:30 a.m. when they heard a crash. When they came downstairs, they said they saw the 2020 Chevrolet Tahoe had crashed into the front door of the bar.
"I was actually already in bed…
United Steelworkers came out swinging against the proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp., accusing U.S. Steel and its buyer, Nippon Steel, of ignoring an agreement to notify the union ahead of the announcement.
A strike is set for 2024 if Anheuser-Busch fails to negotiate a new agreement with their employees, according to the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee. Around 99% of the brewery's unionized workers reportedly voted in favor of the strike.
Anheuser-Busch is a unit of Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), which has its North American headquarters in St. Louis.
The members of the union are demanding the following changes:
improved wages
protection of jobs
secure healthcare
retirement…
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