Sky-high crime rates in the city of St. Louis are one reason the region has experienced little growth, writes St. Charles County's leader, Steve Ehlmann. He lays out what lawmakers in the state's capital, Jefferson City, must do to fix the problem, including appointing just one prosecutor to cover both the city and St. Louis County.
Ahne's Bakery in Waterloo, Illinois, was closed until further notice after a fire in the bakery Sunday night.
The bakery said in a Facebook post that no one was inside the building when the fire occurred, and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
The Ahne family was still cleaning up after the fire Monday, but they’re reflecting on more than just blown out walls and burnt insides. There’s a legacy there no fire could burn.
“I just followed the same recipes that…
Firefighters are working to put out a large fire at an industrial park in Sauget in Metro East.
Sauget Police Chief James Jones said the fire was at Eagle Industrial Park on Mississippi Avenue. The fire started late Monday afternoon.
According to its website, Eagle Industrial Park is a 60-acre facility that includes a 35-acre industrial park that offers space for transloading and storage tanks for wet and dry goods. Transloading is the process of transferring shipped goods from one mode of transportation…
A high-ranking Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis official presented three broad scenarios for how the U.S. can see a lowering of the current 7% inflation rate to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. The one he said appears most likely is the least popular.
This year's 40 Under 40 Awards honorees represent a slew of industries, including banking, education, retail, health care and construction, among others. Companies represented within the 2022 class include St. Louis City SC, Saint Louis Zoo, Enterprise Holdings, and Bayer, among others.
Seth Waite and Jim McBride didn’t sit still for long.
After selling their home relocation technology startup, Handled, in 2021 to Fenton-based transportation giant UniGroup, the local entrepreneurs knew they wanted to team up again on high-tech startups.
As they plotted their next move, Waite and McBride knew they wanted to focus on advancing companies with products that included artificial intelligence and machine learning. But aside from the technology, the duo realized what they loved…
Seeking out a mentor is the most impactful step a diverse employee can take early in their careers, according to a survey taken by Edward Jones as part of its recent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion conference.
A St. Louis-based private equity firm has hired a new operating partner with nearly 20 years' experience at another locally based, privately held operating company.
The St. Louis-based grocery company will take over the only two locations of another family-owned grocer and replace them with Schnucks-branded stores.
A St. Louis-based provider of registered dietitian consulting services has acquired a Nebraska-based dietetics consulting business, its second acquisition since receiving a private equity investment two years ago.
The U.S. had an 80,000-driver shortage in 2021, according to the American Trucking Associations. But St. Louis trucking companies saw the number of drivers increase 8% over 2021. Here's how one local trucking firm increased its drivers.
As the world is constantly changing, consumers are as well. As a society, we are living our lives online more than ever before, whether that be through banking, working, staying in touch with family and friends, shopping, the list goes on. We are exchanging and digesting information at an incredible speed and we often don't give it a second thought when doing so. Everything is at our fingertips, making life easy, but also leaving us more vulnerable than we'd care to think. Technology is to thank…
Lydia Meyer, Marketing Coordinator, and Michael Stevenson, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Royal Banks of Missouri
With summer vacations in our rearview mirror, I think about how family road trips have greatly improved with the emergence of advanced GPS navigation systems — and perhaps with the adoption of handheld activities for those in the back seat. Thirty years ago, we relied on roadmaps or someone’s opinion when we needed to know how to get to a new location. Paper maps worked, but they didn’t offer the best route, integrate real-time traffic guidance or provide the many other advantages that are…
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