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The St. Louis Business Journal on Thursday celebrated the St. Louis region's entrepreneurship and innovation community with its Beers with the Beat event at Spark Coworking St. Louis.

St. Louis real estate firm Oliver Properties has expanded its downtown holdings by acquiring another apartment building along Washington Avenue.

The legislator pushing for a city manager-style government in St. Louis tabled her proposal Tuesday, signaling it's not likely to be taken up again until at least April. At the same time, legislators approved raises for city workers.

Business bankruptcies are up in St. Louis post-Covid. Experts give reasons why.

The grant will go towards the administration of field tests for polio designed to help detect the disease in impoverished countries where it has yet to be eradicated.

A major soybean research project, which collaborates with the University of Missouri, will shut down April 15 due to President Donald Trump’s dismantling of funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Soybean Innovation Lab, based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, formed in 2011 to provide researchers and organizations with the resources needed to advance soybean development. The lab is comprised of over 100 technical soybean experts from 24 countries, each representing…

An appeals court late Tuesday put a St. Louis County Council measure enabling it to remove government department heads back on the April ballot.

Missouri universities and research organizations will need to cut about $100 million from administrative costs for research funded last year by the National Institutes of Health or replace the money from other sources if President Donald Trump’s attempt to reduce indirect costs is successful. There were 1,553 grants worth $901 million issued by the NIH to Missouri institutions during the most recent federal fiscal year. The recipients reported spending as much as 30% of their grant on indirect…

In a 12-page court order, Judge Richard Scheibe accuses now former Interim Prosecutor Hannah Dunakey of violating the law by continuing to prosecute cases involving a sheriff’s deputy she had a relationship with. He said she rode along with the deputy on duty, witnessed crime scenes and then prosecuted cases directly tied to those incidents. Webster University legal professor Peter Dunne weighed in. “Situations of this kind are distressing and regrettable because they create a cloud of impropriety,"…

WASHINGTON — A coalition of faith groups who provide refugee services Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court over the Trump administration’s executive order suspending refugee resettlement as well as withholding funds for those services appropriated by Congress. Linda Evarts, the International Refugee Assistance Project’s lead attorney on the suit, is urging the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to issue a temporary restraining order; an injunction on the suspension…

WASHINGTON — A federal judge told the Trump administration on Monday that it must comply with a previous ruling that required the government to unfreeze funding on grants and loans. Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island issued the new five-page ruling just days after Democratic attorneys general filed an emergency motion, alleging the Trump administration wasn’t following a temporary restraining order the judge issued in late January.  McConnell…

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday prevented the National Institutes of Health from changing the percentage that universities and medical schools pay in facilities and administrative costs in 22 states that filed a lawsuit, partially blocking a decision that was rebuked by academic institutions throughout the country and members of Congress. Illinois is a plaintiff; Missouri is not. Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts entered the brief, two-page order, which “shall…

The city of St. Louis' revenue collector has sued a Massachusetts firm, alleging the government paid it $10 million for tax software it was never given access to.

A country club wants to build four pickleball courts, but it protesting a city's conditions for the development.

As expected, the St. Louis Cardinals are spending less on their payroll this season.

President Donald Trump ran on an anti-immigrant platform. His victory confirmed that the majority of America support that view. But immigrants have been great for the U.S. – and St. Louis, columnist Dave Drebes writes.

Late last week, hedge fund Elliott Investment Management L.P. released a statement disclosing it was the largest minority owner of AspenTech, with more than a $1.5 billion stake in the company — and that it opposes the merger.

Uncle Bill’s Pancake House is to reopen under new ownership.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis said Monday that governance of public radio station KWMU, 90.7 FM, will transition from the university to independent nonprofit Friends of KWMU Inc., which has provided support to the station since 1977.

Employees of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a large St. Louis-area employer, have received the buyout offer first made last month to federal workers by the Trump administration.