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Sado, the highly anticipated, sushi-focused second restaurant concept from James Beard-recognized chef Nick Bognar, will open later this month.

The national bakery-café, known locally as Saint Louis Bread Co., on Wednesday said it is the first national restaurant to integrate loyalty identification and payment into Amazon One, the tech giant’s payment system that works by reading users’ palm print.

Olin Corp. (NYSE: OLN), the Clayton-based manufacturer and distributor of chemicals and ammunitions, is stopping production at three facilities due to softening sales in its epoxy business segment.

Once scheduled for demolition, a historic office building across from a hospital in Midtown has instead been converted into The Nicholas, a boutique apartment complex, in an estimated $8.5 million project.

Mission Taco Joint, a local, West Coast-style taco restaurant concept, and Big Chicken, a chicken sandwich concept by basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, are both set to begin service at Busch Stadium on opening day.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's "lack of diligence" has led to the dismissal of thousands of cases, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey claimed Tuesday.

Fields Foods will open its new 20,000-square-foot store in Pagedale on Wednesday evening.

Husch Blackwell LLP has moved to a smaller office in downtown Clayton, where it's done away with partner offices in favor of uniform office sizes.

The Missouri House gave first-round approval to a $1 billion personal and corporate income tax cut Tuesday, as Republicans pushed the bill through despite Democratic warnings that vital services would be starved for funds.

St. Louis-based clinical-stage cancer drug startup Wugen said Tuesday it has named Kumar Srinivasan as its president and CEO, replacing Dan Kemp.

Lion’s Choice has appointed Fred Burmer, who has over 40 years of experience in the quick-service restaurant industry, as its new chief executive officer, effective April 3.

After 13 hours of overnight debate, the Missouri Senate gave initial approval Tuesday morning to a pair of bills that would limit medical procedures for transgender children and place restrictions on transgender girls playing school sports.

The Missouri House overwhelmingly approved a bill Monday to legalize sports wagering, with Republicans siding with casino companies to defeat Democratic amendments seeking higher taxes and limits on promotional costs.

Sports Business Journal ranked its 50 Best Sports Business Cities. Here's where St. Louis landed on the list.

Missouri's attorney general announced on Monday a plan to use a law governing deceptive business practices to add restrictions on gender transition interventions for transgender children. In a statement, Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey said his office would use "existing Missouri law governing unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable business practices" to add strict requirements on gender transition interventions, which the statement called experimental. Bailey called gender transition…

For the second year in a row, the underdogs were the big winners in the first round of St. Louis Inno Madness. In our friendly, bracket-style challenge, the lower seeds won in 11 of the 16 first-round matchups of our 32-company bracket. Some of the biggest upsets included wins by No. 29 GreenFrame over No. 4 Summersalt and No. 28 ChiChi topping No. 5 Aptimmune. More than 1,000 individuals cast votes in the first round of this year’s St. Louis Inno Madness. Several of the first-round matchups…

Brad Smith had a decade-long professional golf career, playing in tournaments across the globe against some of the world’s best golfers. Smith, an Australia native who now lives in St. Louis, has since teed up a new career: entrepreneurship.

Through nearly 80 years and three generations as a family business, the types of tables, chairs and other party equipment rented out by Weinhardt Party Rentals may look different now than when the company started in 1946. But the foundation of the business has never changed.

Acertus, a St. Louis-based automotive logistics company, has hired a former Amazon executive as its new operations chief.

Anheuser-Busch InBev's wholesaling app for retailers got a new partner Monday: food giant The Kraft Heinz Co.