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A publicly traded health care company in Atlanta has tapped a former Centene president and University of Georgia alumni as its next CEO.

The two restaurants are part of property management firm Lodging Hospitality Management's efforts to bring new life to the Maryland Heights development.

A big-box retail site that houses Burlington and Five Below stores has hit the market for $8.2 million.

Boeing has said its massive jetliner with folding wings is on track to enter service in 2025.

The Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products has agreed to buy the assets of a Minnesota-based drainage products business.

Missouri Technology Corp. has committed funding to five St. Louis-based startups in its newest batch of venture capital investments.

One of the St. Louis region's largest beer makers has announced that its longtime CEO has stepped down.

A St. Louis coffee shop and restaurant temporarily closed due to lead contamination, the owner said. According to a Facebook post Monday, Brew Tulum Speciality Coffee + Mexican Kitchen Experience, located at 5090 Delmar Blvd. in the Delmar Maker District, found an "environmental hazard" at the business location. An inspection found lead dust on the walls, the floor, inside the HVAC system and remnants of exposed lead paint on the walls, the post said. The restaurant has been closed since mid-September,…

Kathy O’Neill Paese, interim president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on Thursday addressed bankers, investment specialists, financial analysts and CFOs in her first public speaking event in the Louisville, Kentucky, market since taking the post this summer.

One thing led to another, and we decided to invite anybody we knew who would be alone or without their family that night to Thanksgiving dinner. It was a most heartwarming, enjoyable and memorable time.

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes listed one of his Kansas City-area homes for sale in June. The property quickly found a buyer — a KC-area media executive and private equity investor.

Illinois lawmakers on Thursday approved a proposal that would allow companies to develop new nuclear power generation in Illinois for the first time since 1987. House Bill 2473 does not entirely lift the 36-year-old moratorium on nuclear construction. Instead, it creates a regulatory structure for the construction of small modular nuclear reactors, or SMRs. The bill limits the nameplate capacity of such reactors to 300 megawatts, about one-third the size of the smallest of the six existing nuclear…

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher scurried away from waiting reporters Thursday rather than answer questions about the events that have launched an ethics inquiry and caused some members of his party to ask for him to step down from his powerful post. Plocher spent most of the afternoon in a closed-door Republican caucus meeting at the Missouri Farm Bureau headquarters in Jefferson City. During the meeting, members said, he gave his defense of seeking personal reimbursement for expenses originally…

It takes a village to create one. The Veterans Community Project are veterans helping their own. On Wednesday, the organization held a ribbon cutting for its first phase of its St. Louis campus, which will hold an outreach center open to all veterans and a planned tiny home community for homeless veterans. It's found a home in north St. Louis on a nearly 4-acre property in the heart of the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. The first phase unveiled 20 tiny homes with 10 being family units. The day…

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher’s new chief of staff is a former legislative leader whose political career was upended more than a decade ago by a federal bribery investigation and allegations of violent sexual assault. On Thursday, Plocher announced to a closed-door Republican caucus that Rod Jetton will take over as his top legislative aide. Jetton was elected to the Missouri House in 2000 and served four terms, playing a key role in the GOP capturing a majority in 2002 and rising to become…

Despite hearing from multiple consumers who opposed it, the Board of Trustees for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District voted Thursday to accept a recommended rate hike proposal. After an hour-long meeting, the board voted 5-1 to send the proposed rate increase of 32% that had been recommended by the independent Rate Commission to voters. Voters next April will be asked whether to approve the use of $750 million in debt funding under the 32% increase, which would see bills rise from an average…

Arch Grants, the St. Louis nonprofit that annually awards $75,000 equity-free grants to startups, said Thursday it is providing nearly $1.9 million in funding to 22 startups in its 2023 cohort.

Higher rent prices, decreasing real estate availability and a lack of new development projects has made St. Louis’ retail landscape a landlords’ market, officials said.

WeWork has identified nearly 70 North American sites where it aims to terminate its lease agreements as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.

A scrap metal recycling plant in St. Louis faces thousands of dollars in fines and correction costs after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it was potentially polluting the Mississippi River. The company, SA Recycling LLC, has three facilities in the St. Louis area along the Mississippi River. The specific plant at fault, located in the Patch Neighborhood on Nagel Avenue, reportedly did not control its stormwater runoff and could have possibly polluted the river. "EPA alleges that…