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Rated Test Kitchen, 313 N. 11th St., in a social media post Tuesday said its final day of service will be May 31.

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A Missouri House budget subcommittee slashed more than $300 million from agency budgets Monday, which the chairman said is intended to align spending authority with actual spending. Another budget subcommittee, also meeting Monday, cut $59.5 million more in general revenue from several agencies, earmarking the money instead for local projects that include several that were vetoed last year. The Subcommittee on Appropriations – Agriculture, Conservation, Natural Resources and Economic Development…

A Germany-based manufacturer broke ground on a multimillion-dollar investment to upgrade a Metro East copper products plant.

Two more federal office leases, including a massive government office in the city of St. Louis, have been canceled, the Department of Government Efficiency set up by President Donald Trump said on its website Monday.

The project is expected to open in June.

A local franchisee of a Chicago-based sandwich chain has signed an expansion agreement.

The agency that regulates Missouri's wildlife and natural resource recreation is investigating a suspected cyberattack against it, officials told KSDK. The Missouri Department of Conservation was notified of "suspicious activity" on one of its data servers recently by its cybersecurity vendor, News Services Coordinator Joe Jerek said. "MDC quickly activated its Incident Response Team to analyze MDC systems to remediate any issues and to gain further clarity on the scope of suspicious activity,"…

The 22-story tower at 500 N. Broadway in recent months has become headquarters for engineering consulting firm EDM Inc. and newly created law firm Skelton Moore.

The city's Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority sent offer letters to the owners of 87 properties, and 60-day notices to 59 others. All but 15 belong to the same owner.

The deal completes a $917 million merger that was first announced in August.

The U.S. Women’s National Team and China will play a friendly match June 3 at Energizer Park.

The nonprofit group working on construction of an advanced manufacturing center in the St. Louis area also is helping high school students gain exposure to potential career paths in the manufacturing sector.

German chemical giant Bayer is improperly using a court order to hide details of a “propaganda” campaign targeting Missouri lawmakers and potential jurors, an emergency motion to lift the confidentiality cloak claims. At a hearing on Thursday in Cole County Circuit Court, attorney Matt Clement will argue that 46 “public relations” documents designated as confidential by Bayer’s attorneys contain no proprietary information. Instead, Clement wrote in the motion filed last week, the records…

Tim Weber splits his time between roles as a newspaper publisher and co-owner and managing partner of music venue Old Rock House.

A new poll shows Cara Spencer and Tishaura Jones as the No. 1 and 2 choices, respectively, in the St. Louis mayoral primary Tuesday.

With talk of Trump tariffs and concerns that already low farm prices will plunge further, we need to restore supply management, a nonprofit official writes.

On Jan. 29, the U.S. Copyright Office issued its long-awaited second installment about copyrights and artificial intelligence. This was the follow-up to the initial guidance provided in March 2023. In this report, the Copyright Office addressed the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems and was based on existing statutory law, current caselaw, and over 10,000 public comments and additional research. The goal was to explore the necessary amount of human contribution for copyright protection…

St. Louis mayoral candidate Andrew Jones said that leaders have focused too much on how to spend the city's portion of Rams settlement money, and reiterated prior statements that the city needed to attract more sustained economic growth instead of a "windfall."

The amount of time it takes for an infant or small child to get a hearing aid fitted has gone from weeks to days.