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As it prepares its new high-profile Ballpark Village location to open next year, the company plans to continue expanding its frozen foods business, with a new product line hitting stores next month.

If you're looking for ways to enjoy the great outdoors as temperatures rise, St. Charles County Parks has something new that might interest adventurers. A water trail is now open as part of the first phase of the Dardenne Creek Blueway. The trail starts at 370 Lakeside Park in St. Peters and ends at Riverside Landing in St. Charles, according to a news release. The first portion of the new water trail is a 3.5-mile trip by kayak or canoe. Eventually, St. Charles County Parks plans to have the…

A Metro East-based furniture company is targeting late summer to open its largest furniture showroom to date, converted from a former grocery store in a strip mall in south St. Louis County.

The bank was looking for a place to consolidate offices before the pandemic began, but the analysis changed in the fall of 2020. "We said ‘this thing with Zoom and Teams, this is different and maybe there is something lasting about this.’"

A star St. Louis banker convicted of fraud but released from prison is back in court, as the feds seek to revoke his supervised release.

The St. Louis startup has software that uses data and artificial intelligence to create mathematical models designed to help freight carriers make decisions on how best to run their businesses. It plans to use its fresh funding to put its technology in the hands of more trucking companies.

The owner of the Post-Dispatch is making more staffing cuts at that newspaper and other local publications it owns, as a food magazine stops distribution beyond the St. Louis area.

The Chemical Building in downtown St. Louis has secured a deal to open as a dual-branded hotel with two brands, according to plans filed with the city.

The O'Fallon-based events software provider has made a global acquisition it says includes technology that will help its clients better protect their event venues from outside threats.

For the first time since the pandemic began, live music is returning to Fair Saint Louis in downtown St. Louis. Fair Saint Louis announced its live entertainment lineup Wednesday for this July Fourth, capping off the holiday weekend with a "90s House Party." The annual fair will take place July 2-4 – Saturday through Monday – at Kiener Plaza and Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. Acts include X Ambassadors, Third Eye Blind, Tyler Farr, Rodney Atkins, Color Me Badd, Montell Jordan, Coolio,…

Unfortunately some of our country’s greatest inventors were bullied into obscurity.

Health care costs top the list of expenses that people report difficulty affording. Medical care has become so expensive, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports, that it’s considered pricier than mortgages and rent, monthly utilities and food budgets. Sixty-six percent of Americans, in fact, predicted they wouldn’t be able to afford health care in 2021. The result is that more than half of adults have delayed or gone without certain medical care during the past year due to cost. For Missouri…

Studies show that 87% of employees consider health and wellness offerings when they decide to work for a company. To keep pace with the changing needs of employees since the onset of Covid-19, employers are enhancing their wellness plans and benefits packages to take more of a whole health approach to health care. To help employees along this journey toward overall well-being, employers are focusing on areas that go beyond just physical health. Addressing mental health, financial health and societal…

The number of Wash U grads living in the St. Louis region has dipped in recent years, even as its leader in 2019 pledged to make the elite institution a better neighbor. Chancellor Andrew Martin lays out its strategy to reverse the trend, including becoming more "immodest" and launching a program aimed at better addressing workforce needs.

St. Louis Business Journal data reporter Maddy Simpson moved here last year and met other young professionals through a young adult group. Now, many of these same people are moving out of St. Louis.

St. Louis is losing more college-educated people than it gains, Census data show. It's a trend that's ominous for the region, since it could lead to a scarcity of new ideas and the same people moving from one leadership position to another, one expert said.

KMOX is changing its weekday lineup for 1120 AM and 98.7 FM after the retirement of longtime host Charlie Brennan earlier this month.

Sarah Fenske will leave her job as host of KWMU's signature local talk show for a post with Riverfront Times owner Euclid Media Group, effective June 22.

The new Ladue branch will replace St. Louis County Library's current headquarters at 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. and is expected to be completed in late 2023. The total cost of the project is $22 million.

St. Louis County lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a subsidy package for a trucking company's new headquarters.