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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.

Architect DLR Group is knee deep in a $250 million renovation to the University of Missouri's football stadium.

A wild wood duck found dead in a Saint Louis Zoo lake has triggered multiple exhibit closures and changes, Zoo officials said Friday.

The city of Kirkwood is adding the $6.2 million replacement of its ice rink to the existing $11 million revamp of its community center.

Bi-State Development's board on Friday approved extending an agreement to operate the Delmar Loop Trolley through 2028.

Federal regulators have approved the application of an Effingham, Illinois, bank to acquire the Community Bank of Trenton through a merger with its holding company, CBT Bancorp Inc.

Two of Missouri’s nine Planned Parenthood clinics are poised to start performing regularly-scheduled surgical abortions next week, though clinic leadership says access to medication abortions is in the hands of the state.  The first elective abortion in Missouri since the procedure was banned in 2022 was performed earlier this month in a Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic. It will now be offering regular appointments for surgical abortions along with the clinic in Columbia, which has not offered…

The first of six new buildings has opened at St. Louis Community College, the result of voter approval of Proposition R in 2021.

The first spending bill of the year — almost $2 billion to fund state agencies through June 30 — was approved Thursday by the Missouri House Budget Committee. The supplemental appropriation bill includes money to make sure public schools receive their full allocation under the foundation formula, $103 million for federally financed summer food programs and funding to eliminate waiting lists for developmental disability and behavioral health services. The bill, which is moving earlier…

Legislation that would remove the expiration date on a pair of laws affecting transgender minors passed the Missouri Senate Thursday after a fight by Senate Democrats. It now heads to the Missouri House for consideration. The bill in question, which contained a litany of provisions removing sunset dates for various programs, would make permanent a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and restrictions on transgender athletes in public schools. The Senate tacked on the provisions impacting transgender…

A hotel downtown is expected to be put up for sale again after a buyer’s attempt to purchase the property, currently in receivership, fell through.