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Esquire magazine has named a St. Louis sushi-focused restaurant on The Hill one of the 50 best new restaurants in America. Sado, located at 5201 Shaw Ave., was named on the annual list of "Best New Restaurants in America" by the magazine on Tuesday. A group of the magazine's food writers traveled and dined at more than 200 restaurants and compiled their list of the 50 best. MORE: Sado, the highly anticipated sushi restaurant from Nick Bognar, to open on The Hill How the Bognar 'dynasty' helped…

A former Missouri legislator with a controversial history of posting inflammatory statements on social media has won a $77,000 discrimination settlement claim with the St. Louis County government. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a former Missouri state representative and senator who was once censured for calling for the assassination of former President Donald Trump on social media, later landed a government job working for St. Louis County Councilwoman Rita Heard-Days as an aide. In the fall of 2022, Heard-Days…

Gerard Craft's Cinder House restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel in downtown St. Louis will close after a five-year partnership, officials said.

Bankrupt broadcaster Bally Sports plans to drop regional sports broadcasts, possibly in September 2024 as part of a wind down, according to reports, a move that would force two local pro franchises – the Cardinals and Blues – to find other television and streaming arrangements.

The Cortex Innovation District said Wednesday it's secured $7 million from the state of Missouri to address tech talent shortages.

An Earth City-based technology provider and IT services firm has appointed two of its employees to new C-suite roles.

A new coffee shop from developer New + Found and U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits Champion Matt Foster will open at City Foundry.

A global professional services company has acquired one of the St. Louis region's largest information technology consulting firms.

The deal, which reportedly could be finalized by the end of the year, would create a health insurance giant and become the largest M&A deal of 2023, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Scott Colbert acknowledged Wednesday that he was wrong – kind of – a year ago when he predicted a recession was likely.

BJC HealthCare and Saint Luke’s Health System said they'll combine on Jan. 1, creating a cross-state system with 28 hospitals and hundreds of clinics.

Washington University has hired an administrator from an Arizona school as its next administrative chief.

The Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products has completed its planned buyout of the assets of an Ohio-based erosion control products business.

The owner of downtown St. Louis' Railway Exchange Building on Tuesday lost an appeal of awards last year to contractors who hadn't been paid for work on a planned redevelopment of the massive vacant property.

A restaurant group is offering two properties in St. Louis neighborhoods for sale, including the location of a shuttered downtown eatery for $1.3 million.

Negotiations with airlines over how to pay for a massive $3 billion single-terminal redevelopment at St. Louis Lambert International Airport are going "fairly well," the airport's leader, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge said at a recent event.

A former hotel with a prominent location along Interstate 44 will soon be demolished.

As St. Louis City SC surveyed fans midway through the Major League Soccer season, one component of feedback delighted CEO Carolyn Kindle: Fans largely said they felt safe attending games at CityPark.

U.S. Steel announced it would be idling steelmaking at the Granite City Works plant indefinitely. Workers learned of the decision in an email from U.S. Steel Senior Vice President and Chief Manufacturing Officer Scott Buckiso that was sent out Tuesday morning. As part of the decision, U.S. Steel issued approximately 1,000 employees a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice that they might be laid off and said they anticipated about 60% of those workers would likely lose their…

The carpenters' union that covers St. Louis has brought a breach of contract complaint against developer Paul McKee over a loan involving an O'Fallon, Missouri, office building.