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State Rep. Crystal Quade may have serious competition to lead the Democratic ticket in next year’s gubernatorial election.

Core & Main Inc. (NYSE: CNM), the Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, said Wednesday it has closed on its acquisition of a Southern California provider of fire protection and waterworks products.

A Pennsylvania-based industrial gas supplier is looking to expand its production facility in Maryland Heights.

Latch Inc. (Nasdaq: LTCH), a building security technology company based in New York that largely operates remotely, said this week it plans to have a “centralized office” in St. Louis to house roles it believes are best suited to work together in person.

The senator's decision will likely be greeted enthusiastically by two key Republican interest groups. But a run for the statewide office will require more than door-knocking.

Records reveal 75 years of government downplaying, ignoring risks of St. Louis radioactive waste

Core & Main Inc. (NYSE: CNM), the Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, said it has closed on a West Virginia provider of precast concrete and other engineered construction site products.

St. Louis County officials met to discuss a bill that would give senior citizens relief on property taxes.  Instead of ending in a vote Tuesday afternoon, no decision was made.  A majority spoke in favor of the tax relief, but the main reason it didn't come to a vote was because some council members had questions on how exactly this bill would be implemented. This all started when Governor Mike Parson signed Senate Bill 190 last week.  It created a program that allows most seniors who receive…

The new startup, McClintock LLC, launched in May 2022 and focuses on providing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help agriculture firms with plant breeding. It was founded by CEO Hongjie Guo, who formerly worked as a scientist at Benson Hill.

CycleBar Chesterfield's landlord is seeking to evict the provider of cycling and spinning classes.

The university first purchased the Goodwill buildings in 2019 for development into a "hub to nurture both businesses and individuals as they advance and grow in the St. Louis innovation ecosystem,” the university said in a statement.

An acquaintance of a former St. Louis County chief of staff was charged in connection with the dissemination of a sex tape involving the man and an unidentified woman last year. Calvin Harris was St. Louis County Executive Sam Page’s chief of staff. The boyfriend of the mother of Harris' child was charged in connection to the incident, allegedly sharing the tape with Page’s political enemy in 2022. Rodney Leger, 51, of Glen Ellyn, Ill. was charged with three counts of nonconsensual dissemination…

The deal gives gives Nickelodeon the first chance at picking up the studio's major animation projects, while giving the local company the chance be the animator-of-choice for certain Nickelodeon projects.

Another new grocer threatens to take more market share from local brands, which still believe they have a significant edge.

A longtime Republican state lawmaker announced Tuesday she is running for Missouri lieutenant governor.  Holly Thompson Rehder, who served eight years in a Sikeston-based Missouri House seat before being elected to the state Senate in 2020, will run to replace Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe.  Kehoe is giving up his office to run for governor next year.  In announcing her candidacy, she specifically pointed to legislation she sponsored this year that was signed into law to prohibit transgender athletes…

State Sen. Karla May is the latest Democrat to jump into the U.S. Senate primary in the hopes of taking on Republican incumbent Josh Hawley next year.  May joins Marine veteran Lucas Kunce and St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell in the primary field.  After serving eight years in the Missouri House, May was elected to the state Senate in 2018, representing portions of St. Louis and St. Louis County. She cruised to reelection last year, winning in November with 74% of the vote.  She…

The Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) has unveiled the accelerator program’s new agtech cohort, which includes seven startups that will use the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to advance technologies focused on climate change.

St. Louis is bidding to bring a major international hockey championship to St. Louis in 2026. A committee leading the efforts includes executives from the city's major professional sports teams, as well as former several St. Louis Blues stars.

Jamie Lawless, who most recently was executive director of Baker McKenzie in Tampa, Florida, will become Husch Blackwell LLP’s CEO on Feb. 1, 2024, succeeding Milwaukee-based Paul Eberle at the helm.

On Monday, Gov. JB Pritzker, the state’s legislative leadership and representatives of the hospitality industry announced that hotels in Illinois saw record revenues in fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30. Across the state, hotels brought in $307.8 million, according to figures from the state’s Department of Revenue. That beats fiscal year 2019, the previous record year for hotel income and the last year before the pandemic upended the hospitality industry. Revenue in 2023 was up 35.8 percent…