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The company signed an office lease to occupy 41,000 square feet in downtown Clayton.

Good Company, a new cocktail bar and restaurant, will open this spring in the former home of Layla in The Grove.

Local musician Trammel Horton plans to open Moshmellow at 3359 S. Jefferson Ave., in the city’s Benton Park West neighborhood, likely by late February or early March.

Washington University is hiring a law professor from Arizona as its new law school dean.

YWCA Metro St. Louis, a nonprofit human services agency and women's advocacy group, has hired a new chief economic inclusion officer.

When the bank developed plans to add an amenity for its employees at its new office tower at 8001 Forsyth Blvd., Julie Keane’s business was a natural choice, said Chuck Kim, chief financial officer and executive vice president of Commerce Bank’s holding company.

Creve Coeur agriculture firm NewLeaf Symbiotics expects $45 million in fresh funding to position it for a “huge milestone”: profitable operations.

The ideas range from grant money to incentivize businesses to move downtown to subsidizing child care for city residents to funding improvements to water treatment plants.

Series Six, a local apparel company specializing in St. Louis-inspired designs, on Saturday will open its new retail store at 3719 Watson Road in the city’s Lindenwood Park neighborhood.

City employees in St. Louis are recommended to mask up when working indoors due to an increase in respiratory virus cases in the region, the health department said Friday afternoon, after previously saying that masks were required. Gov. Mike Parson's office confirmed to KSDK it had a conversation with Jones' office on Friday related to the city's mask policy shift. In the earlier statement, St. Louis Director of Health Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis said the new rule took effect Friday and requires…

St. Louis’ bid to bring a major international hockey tournament to St. Louis has fallen short. USA Hockey said Friday it has awarded the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as host of the 2026 2026 International Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.

Alaska Airlines says it plans to spend $130 million to update older aircraft interiors starting later this year.

More than 40% of the owners listed on applications for state’s social-equity marijuana licenses issued in October were from outside Missouri, according to an annual report released by the Division of Cannabis Regulation Wednesday. About half of those owners came from California, Michigan, Louisiana and Arizona collectively. The microbusiness license program is meant to boost opportunities in the industry for businesses in disadvantaged communities, and it was part of the constitutional amendment…

Busch Stadium is hosting another massive concert this summer. Billy Joel and Sting will bring their stadium tour to Bush Stadium on Friday, Sept. 27. Tickets will go on sale Friday, Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. at LiveNation.com and TicketMaster.com. There will also be several presales including a Citi Bank presale on Jan. 8, a Verizon presale on Jan. 9 and multiple presales through the St. Louis Cardinals for season ticket holders and other VIPs. The Cardinals made the announcement at a news conference…

I have never been a football fan, but there was always something very special about the “bowl games” on New Year’s.

One of the St. Louis region's biggest architecture firms has been acquired by a similar company based in Illinois.

Missouri’s second-longest serving member of Congress announced Thursday he will not seek a ninth term. U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican who turns 72 this year, said in a social media post that he made the decision to leave Congress “after a lot of thoughtful discussion with my family.” With the announcement, Luetkemeyer joins about two dozen Democrats and 14 Republicans in the U.S. House who have said they will not seek re-election this year. “As we look to the future, I believe…

Missouri in 2023 ranked 28th among U.S. states for growth, according to moving giant U-Haul, off from its 13th-place ranking in 2022.

St. Louis’ 1% earnings tax should be phased out and until then, it should be indexed to exempt low-income taxpayers and those who move into the city, a report released Wednesday by a special legislative committee recommended.

A national construction-focused firm with a huge presence in St. Louis has created the new role of president overseeing the St. Louis area.