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Health costs are projected to be up more than 5% in 2023. One local insurance expert breaks down this increase, and how employers should respond.

Backers of the project say its creation will create thousands of high-paying jobs in the region and puts St. Louis squarely within an emerging national trend in manufacturing.

The business said a lack of help and the owner's health were factors.

The swap dates back to a deal made in 2018 and will involve a significant renovation to turn the branch into a new bank headquarters.

Katherine Pinner, the GOP candidate for St. Louis County executive, has dropped out of the race.  Chair of the Republican Central Committee of St. Louis County Rene Artman said Pinner notified the party Thursday night. Artman said she was the one who accepted the call from Pinner, but Pinner did not specify a reason for dropping out of the race. She just told Artman she had a desire to do so. According to Artman, Pinner missed the deadline to formally withdraw her candidacy, so she will have…

The new strategy puts the family-owned St. Louis-based grocery chain into the convenience store category, while pairing it with another of its more recent concepts focused on healthy food options.

Former Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed and former Ward 22 Alderman Jeffrey Boyd have pleaded guilty in connection with a federal bribery investigation. The pair changed their pleas to guilty in federal court Friday, days after former Ward 21 Alderman John Collins-Muhammad also pleaded guilty in the bribery investigation. All three former aldermen, accused of accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting property tax abatements, previously pleaded not guilty to the charges. They will…

A state agency awarded some of California's biggest Medicaid contracts to a competitor, something an analyst called a "worst-case outcome" for Centene.

A longtime purveyor of St. Louis' toasted ravioli has called it quits.

St. Louis-based IT firm GadellNet Consulting Services has named a new CEO, a move that comes as it continues to experience rapid growth.

Another Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster recovery center in the St. Louis area will open Friday to help people affected by flash flooding in late July. On Aug. 26, the center will open at the University City Recreation Center at 7210 Olive Blvd. to provide one-on-one assistance to flooding victims. The center will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week. "Recovery specialists from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration will provide information on available services,…

The complaint alleges that new benefits announced by Starbucks were a tactic meant to discourage more baristas from organizing.

Golf is indeed full of tradition and history, those are two of the qualities that make it so special. But the players have just become too good.

The retailer opened a new shop featuring a section for an affiliate company, a St. Louis-exclusive brand of smoke shops.

The state's investigation began in 2019, after a whistleblower reported that one of Centene's subsidiaries was failing to disclose true pharmacy benefits and services costs.

The city's comptroller this week proposed a plan to raise pay for city police and offer incentives, such as tax breaks and down payment assistance on homes, to attract and retain more officers.

A Missouri environmental regulator has advanced an air quality protection plan, but environmentalists are criticizing it.

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.