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The aftermarket auto-parts retailer is closing more than 700 stores and a handful of distribution centers.

It clears the way for the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Blues to have their games broadcast by FanDuel Sports Network Midwest and streamed by Amazon Prime Video.

The embattled city development agency has already contracted out for marketing work, with a Kansas City firm in line for nearly $1.2 million since 2022. The new, in-house position pays $125,000.

Some have suggested that solving St. Louis' many problems could be made easier with a city manager-style government. Is that true?

David Payne, the 64-year-old CEO of PayneCrest Electric, leaves St. Louis this week for Ensenada, Mexico, where his team will compete in the Baja 1000 – a 1,000 mile race through the desert over 20 hours. Payne will drive the first stint of about 300 miles and two other drivers will do the rest.

Just two days after Missouri closed driver's license offices across the state for a software upgrade, drivers across the St. Louis region are reporting hours long waits. The Missouri Department of Revenue contracted with Colorado-based software firm FAST Enterprises to update and integrate the state's motor vehicle and driver's licensing system. When the department announced the upgrade to the FAST system, they said it would modernize an antiquated system with easier to navigate e-services, mobile…

One of the country’s most prominent buyers of industrial outdoor storage properties has purchased a number of distribution center sites owned and operated by a national fiber optic network company, including a site in the St. Louis region.

Two Clayton tax attorneys and a licensed insurance agent from North Carolina were each sentenced to prison for operating a fraudulent tax shelter and conspiring to defraud the U.S. government of $4.5 million.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis tax preparer to 46 months in prison for filing false returns that caused an estimated tax loss of $2.5 million.

A federal judge on Friday sentenced the former CFO of a St. Louis County company to 41 months in prison for embezzling $2 million.

St. Louis Cardinals fans likely will be able to catch next season's games on Prime Video.

The city of St. Louis' TIF Commission gave its backing Wednesday for tax increment financing for Washington University’s $95 million redevelopment of the former Goodwill Building in the Cortex Innovation District.

The holiday season officially arrived in St. Louis when Anheuser-Busch relit its iconic "flying eagle" sign along Interstate 64. A historic St. Louis landmark, the sign began flapping its wings at sundown Tuesday. The sign has flown high above the city since 1962, according to the sign's "keeper," the Federal Heath Sign Co., which owns the building where the sign was installed. Designed by Disney animator Byron Rabbit, the sign was built in 1953 by ArtKraft Strauss in New York and originally installed…

Spirit Airlines is reportedly in discussions about a potential bankruptcy plan following recent challenges with merger and debt negotiations.

The St. Louis-based tutoring technology company said it is considering alternatives, including a reverse stock split, to return to compliance with the stock exchange's $1-minimum-share-price rule.

An international investment trust has refinanced a large office building portfolio that includes a key downtown Clayton office tower.

A steakhouse franchise location in Chesterfield has hired a new general manager with experience as a restaurant owner as well as having held leadership roles in the hospitality industry.

Architecture firm HOK said Wednesday it will relocate its office within downtown St. Louis.

For a few hours on Wednesday, Republican Andrew Bailey was considered among the frontrunners to be nominated as President-elect Donald Trump’s next U.S. attorney general. Just a week after winning his first full term as Missouri attorney general, Bailey reportedly spent time with Trump at Mar-a-Lago interviewing for the job, according to numerous sources close to the attorney general and multiple media reports. But by Wednesday afternoon, Trump made his choice official, and it wasn’t Bailey.…

Just nine months after Schnuck Markets instituted a controversial new policy across each of its stores, the St. Louis-area grocer appears to have lightly loosened the policy. Shoppers who visited Schnucks over the past week may have noticed a change to the signs surrounding the stores' self-checkout areas. Multiple people in the St. Louis subreddit posted pictures of the signs that once warned customers that they could only self-checkout 10 items or less changed to 15 items or less, some with a…