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Tosha Anderson began her career within the nonprofit industry more than 15 years ago as a certified public accountant — but it wasn't until 2016 that she launched her own boutique accounting firm with two clients.

Covid-19 trends are heading in the wrong direction, marking what St. Louis County Executive Sam Page warns is likely the beginning of a winter surge. In a Monday morning news conference, Page highlighted a "concerning increase" in recent Covid-19 cases and urged members of the public to remain vigilant and get vaccinated as the holiday season approaches. As of Monday, the county is averaging 189 new cases per day, according to data from the St. Louis County Health Department. That's a 30% increase…

The capital will allow the nonprofit startup funding organization to fund five additional companies.

The restaurant's owner announced the closure on social media. And while they didn't indicate a reason for the closure, other postings indicate that the restaurant had been unsuccessful in hiring needed cooks and servers.

The group includes three neurosurgeons, but expects to double in size within the next year, and plans to announce additional hires and locations in the near future.

Many businesses are still reasonably well-capitalized after taking advantage of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). These lending programs, which were backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA), provided a crucial lifeline for many business borrowers during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, pandemic lending programs were never meant to be permanent. As PPP and COVID-19 EIDL loans begin to wind down, business owners should be aware of…

The Little Bit Foundation, which works to eliminate barriers to learning by addressing the basic needs of underserved students across the St. Louis region, has named a new CEO to replace its retiring leader.

Many of us know someone who has left their job during the pandemic in search of another position. A new study says more workers quit their jobs in September than ever before. According to the U.S. Labor Department, more than 4.4 million workers quit their jobs voluntarily in September. That number is up from the 4.3 million people we saw leaving their jobs in August 2021. Almost 1 million workers quit in the leisure and hospitality industry alone. KSDK 5 On Your Side talked with a restaurant…

The United Way of Greater St. Louis is still accepting donations to its 2021 fall campaign, for which it hasn't stated a goal. The nonprofit raised $69.1 million in the 2020 fundraising push.

A Clayton firm buys — and ultimately runs — independent vet clinics, which seek partners as they struggle to complete administrative tasks alone. Here's why the $150 million company sees much more room for growth.

Construction is underway on a $150 million music studio campus that could attract major recording acts to practice and record in St. Louis.

The new CycleBar studio will feature a theater-style indoor cycling studio that holds up to 50 Schwinn bikes. Five class formats will be offered, designed for different fitness levels.

The St. Louis region's largest mechanical contractor just got bigger with an asset acquisition of a 16-employee local refrigeration construction firm.

Founded in July 2019, iCover has developed cloud-based algorithmic underwriting technology designed to help insurers sell to the middle market. It says its use of data and predictive analytics provides the ability to quote, underwrite and provide life insurance in less than five minutes.

A residential solar business that's a portfolio company of Clayton-based Compass Group Equity Partners has agreed to a buyout by a home security giant.

After 580 days of construction, the expansion franchise’s 22,500-seat stadium is nearing its final stages of construction as crews prepare to finish the project in July 2022. Here's what it looks like right now.

The vacant downtown building, one of the largest and most historic in St. Louis, is the subject of a series of court disputes involving a lender and several contractors that, for now, are holding up any potential sale or redevelopment of the property.

Since its first startup competition in 2012, Arch Grants has funded 207 companies with $50,000 grants. Take at a look at our timeline to see when companies were funded, how many are still in business or acquired, and details from a few prominent Arch Grants recipients.

St. Louis needs to not only expand MetroLink, but also address last-mile concerns, safety, low-volume routes and areas that need nontraditional public transportation to get people where they need to go, writes Kathy Osborn of the Regional Business Council.

Well with all of the classes now in English and history and math and science and so on, I was thinking that there are, of course, more ways than one to contribute to learning.