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A new study shows St. Louis Lambert International Airport could drive $32.4 billion per year in economic activity, up nearly $5 billion from 2019, when its $3 billion plan to reconfigure the facility with a new, single terminal is completed.

Senzime, a Swedish medical device company that develops patient monitoring systems, this month moved its U.S. headquarters to St. Louis.

The mayor planned to meet with state legislators and advocate for her administration’s priorities including maintaining the city’s earnings 1% earnings tax and retaining local control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

The owners of Chesterfield Mall have set a date for when mall will close and work could start on a new $2 billion project to replace it.

St. Louis lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a plan to subject a more than 800-acre area in North City to eminent domain, in what they described as a community-driven process that would give tools for future development.

Missouri Republican Senate leaders on Tuesday won confirmation for all of Gov. Mike Parson’s pending appointees to state office as members of the Freedom Caucus backed down from a demand that the upper chamber approve initiative petition changes as the price for confirmation. For almost 16 hours, members of the caucus and their allies held the floor as Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden sought a vote on more than 40 people appointed to state jobs, local government posts and roles on boards…

Maryland Heights-based World Wide Technology has formed a partnership with a San Francisco venture capital firm to increase its access to innovative cybersecurity technologies.

A quick-service burger chain has signed with a local operating group to open eight St. Louis-area stores in the next five years. But the Atlanta-based company’s plans don’t stop there, as it expects to open as many as 25 stores in the region over the next 10 years.

Illinois-based Midland States Bank has a new regional market president for the St. Louis area.

A city board approved demolition of a vacant building to allow a developer who plans $200 million in projects in Downtown West to move forward on one of the first projects planned – a six-story apartment complex and a parking garage.

EyeCare Partners, a St. Louis-based network of ophthalmology and optometry practices, has hired a new chief executive.

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.