A south St. Louis County Catholic elementary school said it will have to close its doors after 65 years due to declining enrollment.
The Most Rev. Mitchell Rozanski, the St. Louis archbishop, said that there are only 70 students who have enrolled at St. Simon the Apostle School for the 2025-26 school year, including one grade level with only three students enrolled and another grade level in which only a single student is enrolled.
“This ongoing trend means that continuing to provide quality…
There are millions, tens of millions, of folks getting older but feeling younger than our forefathers as a result of good medicine, exercises, etc. And here comes pickleball to fill the gap between walking (always good) and more strenuous sports activities.
A Creve Coeur-based agriculture technology firm with an uncertain future has received initial bankruptcy court approval for financing to continue operations while a group of lenders mulls buying the business.
An arts nonprofit that recently shut down gave more reasons for the move, including federal funding cuts and a transition away from downtown St. Louis because of crime.
Two bills relating to a controversial ballot initiative will go into law, after the St. Louis County Council on Thursday overrode vetoes from County Executive Sam Page earlier this week.
Block Inc. (NYSE: XYZ), the financial services business formerly known as Square, is laying off 67 remote workers in Missouri, it said in a notice to the state.
The Missouri House on Wednesday advanced a bill that would enact new regulations on kratom products, which the National Institute on Drug Abuse defines as “an herbal substance that can produce opioid- and stimulant-like effects.”
Kratom products are currently legal both federally and in Missouri, and the legislation that received initial approval Wednesday would put an age restriction on who can buy the products at 21, along with limitations on ingredients.
The bill needs a final vote in the…
Doctors and other health professionals could be held criminally liable if they don’t offer life-saving care to a baby born during an attempted abortion under legislation that cleared the Missouri House Thursday.
“This bill gives the infant a fighting chance,” Republican state Rep. Brian Seitz of Branson, who co-sponsored the legislation, said Thursday morning.
He accused any lawmakers planning to vote against the measure of supporting infanticide, which is already illegal. Republicans…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises on Wednesday said its board has extended a "poison pill" shareholder rights plan amid takeover interest from the Hoffmann Family of Cos.
The St. Louis Business Journal has selected 10 honorees as part of the 2025 HR Awards program, now in its seventh year. The program honors individuals for the important work they do in human resources.
A Republican-led push to overturn the paid sick leave law adopted by Missouri voters last year was debated and approved Wednesday by a state Senate committee.
The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Sherri Gallick of Belton, was passed by the House earlier this month and would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law requiring most employers starting May 1 to provide paid sick time off for hundreds of thousands of qualifying workers.
Gallick called the law, which also increased the state’s…
Proposed federal cuts to Medicaid and food assistance could blow a $2 billion hole in Missouri’s budget and cost the state more than 20,000 jobs and hundreds of millions in tax revenue, according to a pair of reports released this week.
Congressional Republicans approved a budget resolution last month to reduce federal spending by $2 trillion as they seek $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The resolution tasks the committee overseeing Medicaid to cut at least $880 billion over 10 years and the committee…
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