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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.

In addition to the new cafe, Schnucks shoppers will find five varieties of Northwest Coffee's gourmet coffee on shelves at select stores in the region later this spring.

Target Corp. on Monday said that it will boost its starting pay for workers beyond $15 an hour and expand health benefits for employees and families. Target has about 21 St. Louis-area stores, including in Metro East. The Minneapolis-based retailer said its new starting wage for hourly workers at Target stores, supply chain facilities and headquarters locations will range from $15 to $24 per hour. The highest wages won't be available everywhere or for all jobs — warehouse workers often make…

More than 230 nominations were submitted for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2022 Best Places to Work Awards. The 74 companies identified here stand out as the finalists in this year's program.

With the expansion, Denim Social has added a vice president of strategy and chief revenue officer, both newly created roles at the startup.

Interim President LaTonia Collins Smith has been named Harris-Stowe State University's 21st president and is the first African American woman to hold that role.

Mask mandates came to an end Monday in the state of Illinois and St. Louis County. It comes at a time when CDC officials say more than 70% of the U.S. population lives in counties where the coronavirus is posing a low or medium threat to hospitals. In St. Louis County, public health officials rescinded the mask order at 8 a.m. and in its place issued a public health advisory that encourages mask use. Noting that as of Feb. 26, St. Louis County is now in the medium level of community transmission,…

An IT asset disposal and recycling business looking to hire over 60 workers for a new processing facility it plans to open in St. Charles County.

David Kutchback, who led job-placement and training nonprofit MERS/Missouri Goodwill Industries as president and CEO for six years of a more than 40-year career with the nonprofit, died Friday.

The goal is to grow 50 or more minority-owned businesses over eight years around the country that will provide “high-paying, high-opportunity jobs,” said Sandra Moore, chief impact officer and managing director of Advantage Capital.