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Even if the city of St. Louis contributes $30 million in Rams settlement funds to the downtown convention center expansion project, it still will not have enough money for completion, the leader of St. Louis' tourism agency said Tuesday.

City SC will begin its 2023 season on the road before playing its first home game in a match that pits the MLS' newest teams against each other.

The Missouri Supreme Court in a ruling Tuesday sided with Creve Coeur in its fight to deny QuikTrip permission to open a gas station-convenience store.

The location gets its name from the translation from Bosnian for coffee sediment at the bottom of the cup.

The hefty fine and customer remediation addresses past practices tied to mortgages, auto loans and overdraft fees.

The local leader of the firm, with 96 attorneys here and 181 total full-time employees, said it's important that professional firms remain in the city, "but to meet the needs of our employees this is the best fit for us."

Opening one of the stores can cost between $200,000 and $800,000, including franchising fees and build out.

St. Louis County received about $4.8 million of the $45 million it is due from the state opioid settlement.

The attorney joined the office in 2012 as it was expanding its health care practice, which is her specialty. She became managing partner in 2017.

Chesterfield-based agriculture giant Bunge Ltd. plans to build a $550 million manufacturing facility as part of its continued focus on producing ingredients for plant-based proteins.

Word of Ray Wagner's retirement as Enterprise's government-relations chief came down in October, though he's there through the end of the year. He's now landed a government job.

The acquisition marks the end of a big quarter for the firm. In the fourth quarter, it added 155 route miles to its fiber network.

The appointment follows the resignation in July of Page Chief of Staff Cal Harris. That followed the leaking of a sex video involving Harris.

One of the executives was a well-known communications chief for the region's largest public company.

A Washington University professor of banking and finance who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics sciences is being investigated over sexual harassment allegations, according to a report from the Associated Press.

The 12-hour poll generated more than 17 million responses.

The nonprofit already operates four Excel Centers, which are accredited tuition-free public high schools giving adults an opportunity to earn high school diplomas.

St. Louis phone accessory startup Flipstik, which appeared on ABC's reality show "Shark Tank" in 2020, has raised nearly $1.2 million to launch new products. The growth comes after the startup says it has successfully started selling its products in retail stores.

About a week after marijuana became legal in Missouri, nearly all of the dispensaries and manufacturing and cultivation facilities in the state have applied to change their licenses. The businesses when through an application process to secure a Missouri medical marijuana license when it became legal in 2018. Now, four years later, owners are applying to change their medical marijuana licenses to comprehensive licenses. A comprehensive license will allow businesses to sell to both people with…

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has vetoed legislation that would return pension board control to firefighter interests, her office said Friday. Jones' spokesman said the measure had been consistently opposed by City Budget Director Paul Payne and Comptroller Darlene Green. Jones' predecessor, Lyda Krewson, vetoed similar legislation last year, a move Jones' spokesman said was "the fiscally responsible decision." The move comes as the city has continued to lose residents, and though it has been…