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The aide to Mayor Tishaura Jones had been hired last year as director of policy and development. He's now moving to a position in which he'll oversee housing development.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has named an interim athletics director after its previous leader departed for a role at another university.

Starbucks says a National Labor Relations Board employee has evidence that others at the federal agency's St. Louis office attempted to "tip the scales" in a union election.

St. Louis County is paying extra to store bodies at funeral homes and in a trailer outside the County Medical Examiner’s Office. Some county officials are trying to get money to fix this issue. County Executive Sam Page called on the County Council to let them use $300,000 of federal pandemic money as a solution. They want this money to look into the practicality of replacing the health center and the medical examiner’s building. This storage problem has been an issue for years. The Medical…

Metro Transit is estimating it will be several months before it can fully restore service on its red and blue lines in St. Louis and St. Louis County following last month's historic flooding. Metro released an update Tuesday on its efforts to restore MetroLink to normal service after the flooding caused millions in estimated damage. "We know you are tired of having to catch bus shuttles so you can transfer between the blue line and the red line," the organization said in an update posted to its…

St. Louis is an interesting place with unusual challenges. I'm not breaking any news here, of course. It can also be a frustrating place that stumbles when taking a step forward. It's also remarkable place with unlimited potential. Hard to find anyone who will deny any of those points. But part of what makes this region so unusual is in how it's structured. You all know this already, but let me repeat it for the few of you don't: Our biggest population center, St. Louis County, includes 91 different…

Business group Greater St. Louis Inc. is hiring a new business attraction chief from the Charlotte area. He says St. Louis should focus on poaching companies from the high-cost coasts, particularly in areas like financial technology.

A $1.2 billion mixed-use proposal to redevelop an industrial district on the downtown St. Louis riverfront, south of the Gateway Arch, has been in the works for more than five years. That effort began when brokers gauged owners' interest in selling their Chouteau's Landing properties.

A St. Charles County-based car dealership broke ground last week on a new $30 million development that will combine two existing locations into one.

James T. Minor, who took over as chancellor in March, said the university has to be intentional in making its presence seen more widely in its home city of Edwardsville and across the Metro East. Here's how he plans to do it.

AltonWorks, which is targeting projects to restore downtown Alton, said Monday it plans to establish the Wedge Innovation Center. The facility, which is described as an incubator and co-working space for startups and later stage companies, will be located in the Wedge and Elfgen buildings that span the 600 block of East Broadway in downtown Alton.

One of the St. Louis region's largest engineering firms is combining with a California-based global engineering and consulting firm to form a new business.

Rebekah A. Freese, MSW, LCSW, Ph.D., who recently joined Alsana as its senior regional executive director, specializes in eating disorder and behavioral health care in St. Louis. Alsana, a national eating recovery community and treatment provider with three locations in St. Louis, has the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval for its eating disorder programming. Freese brings more than two decades of professional mental health care experience, service and innovation to the Alsana team, demonstrating…

One of the St. Louis region's largest health systems has hired an experienced administrator from Texas as its next senior vice president and system chief nurse executive.

The campus, which Lindenwood vacated in 2019, will serve as a law-enforcement education center with ties to three different Illinois universities.

Another big PGA Tour golf event, last hosted in the St. Louis area in 2008, has been scheduled for Bellerive Country Club, officials announced Tuesday. The 2008 event at Bellerive drew an estimated 100,000 golf fans and generated $28 million for the St. Louis region.

Saint Louis Public Schools are rerouting some of their bus services with the new school year beginning Aug. 22. SLPS announced Monday the move will suspend routes to eight schools for the first few weeks of the school year and aims to get more bus drivers on the road. SLPS said the district is removing the schools from the routing schedule and will provide alternative transportation, to those 3,450 students. “At least for the first few weeks of school, we are providing Metro Link bus passes (or…

Business owners across the St. Louis area are getting some much needed help, after this summer's historic flooding damaged many of their livelihoods. The Small Business Administration (SBA) opened up a recovery center at the Urban League in St. Louis on Monday that will be open daily through Friday. It's help that business owners said they've been waiting for and desperately need. Melissa Ingram has to relive every single lost item that flood waters took away from her business, as she looks to…

Clayton-based online learning firm Nerdy has acquired an educational technology startup in a move designed to add coding programs for students to its educational offerings.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 5.22% for the week ended Aug. 11 — up from 4.99% the prior week.