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Former NFL, NHL and MLB players in the region say their respective alumni groups offer an outlet to raise funding for charities and serve as ambassadors for their sports while also providing a sense of community amongst each other.

The Boeing project, dubbed Operation Voyager, calls for construction of multiple buildings totaling 1 million square feet. The aerospace giant has said the expansion will enable it to compete for the “next franchise programs” from the Pentagon.

There are signs that the opening of the Midtown Topgolf is nearing.

Having grown throughout Illinois, i3 Broadband turned its attention to Missouri for its first expansion across state lines, and the fiber internet access provider began with St. Louis. In June, i3 announced multi-gig tiers and price structures for customers in the Greater St. Louis area, including the latest 8-gigabit tier — the region’s fastest residential internet service speed — and a new 2-gigabit option. All i3 fiber tiers will be available in the entire metropolitan area and St. Louis…

The St. Louis County Council voted Tuesday to move ahead with a tax incentive proposal for the $1.8 billion expansion project planned by aerospace giant Boeing. The proposal will have to go through the legislative bill process. If passed by the council, it would head to County Executive Sam Page's desk. Final approval could take weeks. Councilwoman Kelli Dunaway was the lone dissenting vote. Councilwoman Shalonda Webb, who is an engineer at Boeing, abstained. The Boeing expansion would create…

In its opinion released Tuesday, the Supreme Court sided with Monsanto’s interpretation of the state law that the proper venue is St. Louis County.

The study by St. Louis Community College found that while St. Louis City employs the second most manufacturing workers in the region, the number has dropped by 19% in the last decade.

Emerson said it has agreed to acquire a Germany-based maker of flow metering devices to enhance its intelligent devices portfolio.

Twice this summer, Andrew Mullins emailed state marijuana regulators to make sure they knew about a potential problem. Mullins, the president of the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association, feared that licensed Missouri cannabis companies may be tempted to add illegal marijuana products brought in from other states to their own products in order to keep their production numbers up — a process known as “inversion.” “We understand that production is still catching up with demand and wholesale…

A St. Louis all-girls charter school has announced its closure shortly before the start of the new school year. Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, located in the city's Kingsway West neighborhood, will close at the end of the month due to low enrollment, school leaders announced in a Tuesday letter. The school's foundation owns its property, at 1901 N. Kingshighway Blvd., which was appraised by the city at $1.5 million. The letter was signed by Board Chair Hal Davies and Head of School Daphne…

Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick has begun an investigation into the state’s marijuana program, vowing to assess whether regulators are operating “in a manner that is efficient, accountable and transparent.” The audit is not a routine, scheduled review. It was initiated by Fitzpatrick after he pledged last year during his campaign to look into how Missouri oversees legalized cannabis. It will cover both the medical and recreational programs, spanning back to when Missouri voters first signed…

The Philadelphia Zoo's new leader has led the planning and development of a new $230 million North Campus for the Saint Louis Zoo.

A St. Louis grocer is facing another eviction push by a landlord.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that St. Louis and Jackson counties should have been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit that struck down local health orders aimed at mitigating the spread of Covid-19. Both counties will now have the authority to appeal the November 2021 decision, in which Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green declared local Covid-19 mandates violated the Missouri Constitution. When Green’s original order was issued, state health officials wanted to…

Thirty-seven St. Louis-area firms are listed on this year's Inc. 5000, a ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies released Tuesday, including one that broke into the top five.

The new C-suite appointment marks the latest change for the company, which in May appointed a new chief executive and said it once again plans to offer its shares on the public market.

While his baseball career sent him to dozens of other cities, the decision on where to live after his playing days was a simple one.

The defenseman, a native Canadian, says he's lived in St. Louis for about 10 months per year during the eight years he's played in the league.

The city of St. Charles is fully relying on St. Louis for drinking water after it shut down the Elm Point Water Treatment Plant on Sunday. In a Monday announcement, the city said the level of free ammonia in the raw groundwater, which is vital for disinfecting the water, had suddenly dropped for an unidentified reason. The plant has run for 70 years by using the water's naturally occurring ammonia to react with chlorine, which produces mono-chloramines that act as the water distribution system's…

An animal control or shelter site? A motorsports, go-cart track or other recreational facility? A memorial or museum site? Renewable energy site? Return the land to native tribes? All are among the potential uses for one of the city’s former jails known as The Workhouse, at 7600 Hall St., that a steering committee says it is willing to continue to explore based on the 790 responses it got to a community survey. Some of the uses eliminated from consideration include a job and business training…