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In addition to Pi's deep dish pizza, the restaurant served burritos, quesadillas, fajitas and other Mexican fare.

Sister Mary Roch Rocklage, who founded what's now the Chesterfield-based Mercy health care system, died Tuesday after a long illness, officials said. She was 87. Born Antoinette Marie Rocklage and known as Sister Roch, the north St. Louis native joined the Sisters of Mercy religious order in 1954 at age 19, taking her first vows in 1957. She began her career in a medical/surgical nursing post after receiving her nursing degree in 1961 from what's now St. Xavier University in Chicago. Early in her…

St. Louis entrepreneur Rich Dredge says most job postings online are devoid of substance. His startup is providing a new alternative and some of St. Louis' biggest employers are already using it.

The acquisition talks began in May through a phone call and an email from a business associate who told Terry Ohlms about Larson Financial’s interest in expanding its accounting and tax services.

The St. Louis Cardinals released their 2023 regular season schedule Wednesday including the London series and the season opener. Major League Baseball released the leaguewide 2023 regular season schedule, marking Thursday, March 30 as the season opener. The Cardinals will open the year March 30 against the Toronto Blue Jays at Busch Stadium. This will mark only the third time since 2010 that the team opens the season in St. Louis. This will also be the Cardinal's first-ever opening day series…

In a bid to encourage future development in north St. Louis, the city's urban renewal board voted Tuesday to give the city’s maximum possible tax incentives to another 400 acres in north St. Louis.

Streets of St. Charles, the mixed-use development, has added two new tenants this summer.

In 38 years at McCarthy Building Cos., project director Christopher Nisbet has often focused on projects in K-12 schools and universities, most recently finishing up a multiyear $69 million bond issue at Parkway Schools that fixed up 24 of the 28 buildings in the district.

The Creve Coeur country club will become one of the only courses that can lay claim to this distinction.

A new Starbucks would be built at the site of a closed Maryland Heights restaurant in a plan currently under consideration.

The Chesterfield-based infrastructure repair company said the acquisition will expand its services and a subsidiary's ability to provide turnkey solutions in the New England market.

The CEO of Clayton-based online learning firm Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) has continued his buying spree of the company’s shares, acquiring more than $17 million in stock, boosting his ownership stake in the firm. He says the purchase reflect his bullishness about Nerdy’s prospects for growth and a rising share price, which has sagged since the company entered the public markets.

FEMA has approved more than $33 million in assistance for St. Louis-area residents in the month since flash flooding hit in July.

The Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products is expanding again with an agreement to buy the municipal waterworks division of an Ohio company.

McBride Homes had planned to begin sales Saturday at The Villages at Crestwood Crossing, located on the east end of the former Crestwood Court mall redevelopment, but potential buyers had filled the site's parking lot by Tuesday night.

Norma Walker on Tuesday won a non-partisan special election to fill the position of Ward 22 alderman, left vacant by former alderman Jeffrey Boyd after he and two other aldermen resigned in June amid a federal indictment. Polls opened at 6 a.m. for voters in the 22nd ward and closed at 7 p.m. Walker got 58% of the vote, defeating Tonya Finley-McCaw. Walker will serve the remainder of Boyd's term. According to the city's unofficial results, 435 votes were cast, a turnout of about 9%. Boyd and former…

President Biden on Wednesday announced up to $10,000 in student debt cancellation. The Associated Press reported that borrowers who earn less than $125,000 would be eligible for the loan forgiveness. Politico reported that the Biden administration would also forgive up to $20,000 of debt for low- and middle-income borrowers who previously received a Pell grant. Biden also will extend a pause on federal student loan payments through January, the AP said. The AP reported that legal challenges are…

independent John Wood said Tuesday that he's withdrawing his bid to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Roy Blunt. Wood, a former U.S. attorney who had positioned himself as an alternative to extremism in both major parties. A lifelong Republican, he filed as an independent with the backing of a political action committee led by former Republican Sen. John Danforth. In a statement Tuesday, Wood said that he will no longer face Republican nominee Eric Schmitt, currently…

Former St. Louis Alderman John Collins-Muhammad became the first official to plead guilty in connection with a years-long federal bribery investigation. Collins-Muhammad changed his plea to guilty in federal court Tuesday afternoon in front of U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark to two bribery-related charges and one charge of honest services bribery/wire fraud. The judge set his sentencing hearing for Dec. 6 at 1:30 p.m. The honest services bribery/wire fraud charge carries a maximum penalty of 20…

Jazz St. Louis, the nonprofit arts organization, has chosen a musician, composer and educator as its next CEO.