With just about an hour to spare before the constitutional deadline, Missouri lawmakers on Friday approved a record state budget of almost $51 billion that increases pay for highway patrol troopers and direct care workers and one of the biggest boosts in years for higher education.
The $50.7 billion spending plan headed to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk is $1.3 billion more than he proposed in January and $2.2 billion more than the House-approved budget. It exceeds the budget approved in last year’s…
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Friday that three St. Louis-area cities would get nearly $6.6 million in grants from federal money to aid in industrial site development.
Seoul Juice, a sports drink alternative that was created in a Saint Louis University dorm room, is expanding its retail footprint in St. Louis, as it this week hit the shelves at Dierbergs Markets. Its founder, 28-year-old entrepreneur and SLU alumnus Luis Manta, is now setting his sights on nationwide expansion.
A lawsuit from Boeing accuses U.K.-based Melrose Industries PLC, the owner of Boeing supplier GKN Aerospace in Hazelwood, of failing to adequately capitalize GKN, rendering it insolvent.
Harbour Group, one of the St. Louis region's largest private companies, has expanded its holdings with separate acquisitions of an Illinois chemical manufacturer and a California technology company.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration said Friday it is awarding $703 million from the federal infrastructure law to replace aging passenger railcars, including 48 MetroLink cars in St. Louis.
A “comic-con” convention that has been held annually in St. Louis for nearly a decade has been canceled for this year and will not be held in future years, the convention organizer said.
St. Louis startup SteadyMD, which provides telehealth infrastructure for health care providers, has inked a commercial partnership with global health care giant AmerisourceBergen Corp.
The three warehouses an industrial developer built concurrently to create a new industrial park in Maryland Heights have officially opened, adding to the industrial arena in St. Louis, which has hit record lows in vacancy over the last several years.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to St. Louis organizations stayed broadly consistent from 2021 to 2022. But, for some firms, funding increased dramatically last year.
Providence Health System, owned by St. Louis-based Ascension, has decided to cut bait on a long-promised but slow-to-deliver health care campus that would’ve replaced its now-defunct Northeast D.C. hospital.
Downtown St. Louis' activity recovery is poor compared with other North American markets, ranking only ahead of San Francisco, according to research from the University of Toronto that cites mobile phone data.
The university's School of Cities said that for a period from December 2022 to February 2023, St. Louis' downtown recovery ranked 62nd out of 63 markets, with just 38% of the activity level from the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. It said it obtained the activity level by…
Laura Hughes, who began her new job on April 17, is responsible for leading First Mid Bank & Trust’s marketing and deposit strategy as well as overseeing its performance, culture and customer experience, officials said.
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