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This year's HR Awards honorees have gone above and beyond to assist their companies and organizations during one of the toughest periods yet — a global pandemic marked by a job exodus that’s become known as the "Great Resignation."

Affinia Healthcare, a nonprofit St. Louis health care system, has named its next president and CEO.

An executive brought on in 2020 is spearheading a large health system's initiative to focus support on financial investment in the community, diabetes and healthy food access, infant and maternal health, and school health and wellness. It said tackling the root causes of health problems will lead to “increased wellness and greater overall quality of life."

Joe Maxwell and his crew of tech investors at Fintop Capital, a Nashville-based firm with a St. Louis office, have corralled $200 million in capital. It's the third and largest round of venture capital they've raised since forming their company six years ago. Fintop Capital already has tapped a bit of that money to back Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Plinqit, a savings app that pays users to learn about personal finances. It's the first of eight to 10 investments that Maxwell, Fintop's managing partner,…

Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, as the league's commissioner announced Tuesday that the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute.

St. Louis-based medical device startup Readout Health has added to its C-suite, hiring for a key role that comes as it expands the scope of its digital health technology.

Those with subprime credit in St. Louis are paying an annual interest rate of about 20% for their auto loans, taking "a disproportionate share of their monthly income," according to Robert Boyle, CEO of Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment Corp.

The deal will bring group fitness classes and a yoga studio to the development.

Our St. Louis Inno Madness competition is here. And we've got 32 local startups vying for the coveted title of 2022 Inno Madness champion. Inno Madness is our friendly, bracket-style challenge where readers vote to advance companies based on one question: Who would you invest in? Whether you believe in one mission or product slightly over the other or would prefer to back a more established company versus an early-stage startup, how you answer that question is entirely up to you. The bracket is…

The St. Louis-based coal giant has joined with two private equity firms to launch a developer of utility-scale solar power and battery storage projects on previously mined sites.

A Delaware court has issued another ruling against the Florida hedge fund attempting a hostile takeover of Lee Enterprises, the newspaper chain that owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A unit of Ferguson-based tech and engineering company Emerson Electric plans a multimillion-dollar improvement project.

She has led the nonprofit, which works to educate and promote medical advances in Missouri and stimulate the economy, for 12 years.

The St. Louis firefighters union has sued the city of St. Louis, Mayor Tishaura Jones and the Civil Service Commission, calling the mayor’s recent appointment of an interim personnel director a violation of the city’s charter that could cause them “irreparable harm." Personnel Director Richard Frank resigned late last year due to medical reasons, and, per the city’s charter, an interim director was chosen from within the personnel division to serve until the mayor could appoint a permanent…

Ameren Corp. (NYSE: AEE), the St. Louis-based utility company, has added diversity duties to the corporate role of sustainability chief as a longtime executive plans to retire. The company said that effective Tuesday, Gwen Mizell has been named chief sustainability and diversity officer, an expansion of her previous duties as chief sustainability officer. Mizell was named to the then new role of chief sustainability officer, as well as vice president of innovation, in October. She reports to Ameren…

An elder statesman of Missouri politics is weighing in after Attorney General Eric Schmitt's comments this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where Schmitt used a phrase that has a well-known double meaning. "Let's go fight. Let's go win. Let's go, Brandon. God bless America," the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate said as he concluded his remarks from the stage. Monday, Schmitt shared a clip of the comments on his campaign Twitter account with the phrase that doubles…

The pandemic exacerbated the St. Louis area's pattern of decreasing public school enrollment. We crunched the enrollment numbers from the region's largest school districts.

St. Louis firms that have operations in Russia may be exposed to problems created by sanctions that are a response to the country's invasion of Ukraine, which began last week.

Bad news for St. Louis: The metro seriously lagged in job creation last year, and still has fewer jobs than before the Covid-19 pandemic.

With its $500 million investment, a New York-based private equity fund manager has become the largest shareholder in the St. Louis company.