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The executive director of Center of Creative Arts (COCA) will leave the organization this summer. COCA's board will launch a national search for her replacement later this year.

This is the final week to submit your nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2022 Commercial Real Estate Awards program (formerly the Building St. Louis Awards).

Mercy, the St. Louis-based health system, now is requiring anyone who enters its facilities to wear a medical grade or better face mask, rather than a cloth mask.

Community groups ended their opposition to a merger including a St. Louis bank, saying an agreement reached will benefit low- and moderate-income residents.

Home sales start this weekend for a new subdivision to be built at the site of the former John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in West County, which Fontbonne University unloaded after targeting the area for a campus extension.

Clayton-based managed health care provider Centene has named a former Magellan Health executive as its chief transformation officer.

The Maryland Heights-based hotel development, investment, construction and management company has opened its first hotel in the Los Angeles market, a $25 million, four-story property.

John Hayden will remain St. Louis’ Chief of Police until further notice as the search for his replacement continues, KSDK has learned. Sources familiar with the negotiations said Hayden formally agreed this week to continue serving as chief beyond his Feb. 23 retirement date he announced in September. He has been at the helm for four years. The move follows remarks Mayor Tishaura Jones made in recent weeks about the finalists for the job – one of whom has a pending discrimination lawsuit against…

Students at University of Missouri schools will not have to wear masks when they return to the classroom next week. The UM Board of Curators met Tuesday morning to discuss potential Covid-19 policy changes as cases continue to rise across Missouri and the nation. System President Mun Choi asked curators to consider two recommendations: Masks required indoors for students, faculty and staff Masks required in classrooms and student labs The board rejected both recommendations in separate votes.…

The deal with a local benefits broker will expand the telehealth startup's reach to small and midsized businesses. The partnership comes as the startup plans to soon open its first remote health care clinic in the St. Louis region.

The St. Louis startup developed smart, voice-enabled technology that allows people to interact with the television content they are watching. Its partnership with a major TV manufacturer will bring that technology directly into user's homes.

A nonprofit governing body for chess players and supporters in the U.S. plans to move its headquarters to St. Louis from Tennessee sometime this year. Here's why the organization says St. Louis fit the bill.

A Maryland Heights-based provider of behavioral and mental health services has made its second acquisition in recent months.

UMSL officials said the chancellor's new chief of staff brings experience working with elected officials at the state and local level, as well as with business and nonprofit partners.

Dan Isom, the city’s interim public safety director, credited the progress to several factors, including efforts to hold more events downtown.

Work on the project was set to begin at the outset of the pandemic. Now developers are seeking to extend its building permits to resume work.

Centene Corp., the Clayton-based managed health care provider, has agreed to pay New Hampshire $21.1 million to settle claims by the state that it inaccurately reported pharmacy benefit services costs.

Downtown St. Louis property owners are heading to court seeking the return of $5 million from the neighborhood's taxing district, which spends on beautification and secondary security.

The lawmaker said she would become director of the Midwest Climate Collaborative, which aims "to develop a coordinated Midwestern response to the climate crisis."

The addition to the MVC, which comes as several Division 1 athletic conferences nationwide experience changes in membership, may not be its last expansion move.