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The city of St. Charles will get its first standalone Chick-Fil-A as part of a retail development that also includes two other fast-food restaurants.

The St. Louis Sports Commission's longtime president, Frank Viverito, will retire at year’s end, with his successor to come from within the nonprofit organization.

The Lutheran School of Nursing, a south St. Louis institution dating to 1898, has closed, it said in a social media post.

A union previously rejected a proposal in which Boeing would have made a 2% contribution to employees' 401(k) plans, plus a 100% match on the first 10% of an employee's contribution. Here's what changed, and what was ultimately agreed.

Impossible Sensing, a St. Louis-based startup developing sensing technology to explore space and the ocean, has named a new CEO and recently relocated to a larger local headquarters.

A San Francisco-based startup that provides technology to help companies and organizations use artificial intelligence has opened a new office in Downtown West that will house 215 employees, a figure expected to more than double in coming years.

Mary Elizabeth Coleman, currently a Missouri state representative in the 97th District, bested Jeff Roorda and two other challengers in the race to be the Republican candidate for Missouri state Senate's 22nd District, which lies entirely in Jefferson County. Coleman is running for the seat being vacated by incumbent Paul Wieland, a term-limited Republican not running for reelection. Coleman took 35% of the vote to Roorda's 24%. Roorda, most recently business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers…

A Bosnian restaurant, which first opened in the Dutchtown neighborhood in 2002, will close its doors after a final dinner Aug. 28.

St. Louis voters passed a pair of propositions Tuesday to increase funding for public schools and increase the fines for people caught illegally dumping. Proposition S and Proposition F both passed in the city of St. Louis with more than 80% of the vote Tuesday. Prop S Proposition S would allow the St. Louis Board of Education to borrow $160 million to fund a wide range of repairs and renovations in the Saint Louis Public School District, including security system upgrades, lead removal and ADA…

Benson Hill (NYSE: BHIL) has inked a deal to source cooking oil for grocery chain Schnuck Markets, as the Creve Cover-based food technology firm seeks to expand commercialization of its newly created soybean-based cooking oil brand.

Incumbent Sam Page beat back a challenge from attorney Jane Dueker in the Democratic primary for the office of St. Louis County executive, putting him a step closer to a full four-year term. Page won 63% of the vote, with Dueker taking 36%, according to St. Louis County results. In the Republican primary for the office, Katherine Pinner won a major upset over state Rep. Shamed Dogan. Pinner will face Page in the Nov. 8 general election. Page, county executive since 2019, made his reelection race…

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis, on Tuesday defeated primary challenger Steve Roberts, virtually ensuring her reelection this November in the heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District. Bush got 69% of the vote. Roberts had 26%. Roberts, a moderate challenger, had appealed to voters by claiming that Bush's controversial votes — against the federal infrastructure bill and defense spending, for example — had cost the district. Bush countered that she brought $1 billion in federal relief…

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt took the Republican U.S. Senate primary Tuesday, in a bid to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Roy Blunt. Trudy-Busch Valentine, meanwhile, won the Democratic primary.

The massive project would rank with the new $1.7 billion National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus as one of the largest-ever federal infrastructure investments in the St. Louis region.

The bank's leader said his combined job of president and CEO had become too big for one person, necessitating the move.

Boeing has built up an inventory of 120 undelivered 787 jets. With the green light, the company can expect to see its cash flow greatly improve as it hands them off.

A St. Louis nonprofit foundation that fosters youth interest and participation in live arts performances has hired a new leader.

A Clayton-based wholesale distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products is expanding its reach in the industrial automation and control sector with two acquisitions.

Wells Fargo & Co., whose brokerage unit Wells Fargo Advisors is based in St. Louis, said Monday that it will reinstate guidelines to interview diverse candidates as part of the company's diversity efforts Aug. 19. The San Francisco financial services business suspended the guidelines in June after the New York Times reported that it was interviewing nonwhite and female candidates for positions that were already filled just to meet the bank’s diversity requirements. “We are recommitting to our…

The announcement that the Clayton health care giant's chairman is stepping down comes as it is urging shareholders to approve three changes in how the corporation is governed.