Structural repairs to shore up a deteriorating downtown parking garage could start as soon as this fall, officials said Tuesday while hiring an engineering firm to determine the scope of work needed.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday said it was responding to the spill of a chemical that likely reached Coldwater Creek.
The EPA said in a statement that trivalent chromium compounds were released from a Boeing Co. wastewater treatment plant. There were 1,000 gallons of wastewater released, according to the EPA.
The treatment plant is near St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
The EPA said Boeing stopped the release and started sampling water from Coldwater Creek. The Missouri…
Canadian wildfire smoke has reached near the surface across much of northern Illinois Tuesday afternoon.
An air quality alert is in effect for the metro St. Louis area and all of Illinois through Wednesday evening. The smoke levels near the ground will likely be the highest early Wednesday morning. During the day, the smoke should become less of a concern as the thickest concentrations move away or disperse.
Those with heart and respiratory problems should limit the amount of strenuous activity…
Anheuser-Busch — beset by controversies and sales declines — has launched a new ad campaign featuring some St. Louisans and focused on "reminding everybody who Anheuser-Busch is and what we're all about," its U.S. CEO said.
A new Illinois state fiscal year will begin July 1, ushering in the reinstatement of a 1% tax on groceries and a second increase to the state’s motor fuel tax in 2023.
Amid record-high inflation last spring, the General Assembly temporarily waived Illinois’ grocery tax for the coming fiscal year and delayed the annual increase in the state’s motor fuel tax for six months. Democrats introduced both those measures as part of a larger tax relief package that drew criticisms for its proximity…
Since the pandemic, St. Louis has seen many of the same signs of the evolving office market as other cities, marked by higher vacancy and downsized real estate footprints as companies re-evaluate their space needs. But until recent weeks, office building owners in St. Louis had largely evaded one of the most visible signs of trouble: potential loan default.
A defamation suit filed by a chess player who had been accused of cheating at a St. Louis tournament has been dismissed. It had sought more than $100 million.
Ruth’s Chris Steak House — located downtown on the first floor of the Hyatt Regency at the Arch — has re-opened, following a $1 million investment that will make the restaurant better suited to a post-pandemic landscape, officials said.
St. Louis Alderman Michael Browning on Tuesday sought to reassure businesses and residents after two people were killed and one injured in a shooting near The Grove business district.
Eight assistant U.S. attorneys will soon be working alongside city prosecutors to help prosecute some of the city's most serious cases as St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore's administration continues to dig out from the backlog of cases Kim Gardner’s administration left behind.
The group of eight federal prosecutors include some former city prosecutors who worked during Gardner’s administration as well as her predecessor Jennifer Joyce. Some of them also once worked in the St. Louis County…
The family-owned company that had long been based locally, moved its headquarters earlier this year from St. Louis to Sparks, Nevada, where this month it opened a new 15,000-square-foot manufacturing facility.
A key to attracting more female students is breaking down the stigma that technical career fields are male-dominated environments, said Cheryl Werkmann, a data specialist at Ranken.
The Biden administration on Monday announced $42.45 billion to connect all Americans to high-speed broadband internet by the end of the decade, likening the ambitious goal to FDR’s New Deal-era rural electrification program that brought the then-modern technology to farms and rural areas across the United States.
Missouri will receive $1.7 billion.
The funds, which will be distributed as grants across U.S. states and territories, are allocated under the bipartisan infrastructure law, passed in…
A trip from St. Louis to Chicago via Amtrak’s Lincoln Service will be about 15 minutes quicker starting this week due to track upgrades that allow for increased speeds.
The Amtrak line ran its first 110 mph service on Monday, up from 90 mph previously, which would make the one-way trip less than five hours long. The trip is now a full 30 minutes quicker than when the service ran at 79 mph when the project began in 2010.
The faster speed doesn’t meet the federal definition of high-speed rail…
Compass Group Equity Partners, the fast-growing Clayton-based private equity firm, has invested in a bridge-inspection equipment business as part of forming a new infrastructure company.
The program, including all three awards, celebrates individuals, companies and nonprofits who have shown exceptional commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace or in the St. Louis community. The winners will be announced in August and profiled in a special section Sept. 22.
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