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The head of the International Institute is no longer in the position, according to people familiar with the matter.

A food distributor is the latest firm to take legal action against the owner of the shuttered Armory STL entertainment complex in Midtown.

Two bills pre-filed before the 2025 legislative session seek to put restrictions on how Missourians can change their gender marker on their state-issued IDs. From 2016 until this August, transgender Missourians could change their gender designation on their licenses with a form and physician signature. The Missouri Department of Revenue pulled the form after a couple of lawmakers complained. Currently, the department’s policy is to require proof of gender-transition surgery or a court order…

Missouri Democrats will keep three of the party’s four top leaders in place for the next two years despite an election result where the party lost every statewide race and failed to make gains in the General Assembly. Former U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan of St. Louis will stay on as party chair, with Yvonne Reeves-Chong of Waynesville as vice chair and Glenda Bainbridge of Odessa as treasurer. Joshua Dunne of Jefferson City was elected committee secretary. The selections were made Saturday at a meeting…

Missouri’s new law boosting the minimum wage and providing paid sick leave for workers should be thrown out because it violated constitutional rules on ballot initiatives, a coalition of Missouri business advocacy groups argued in a lawsuit filed Friday. Proposition A, a ballot measure that passed by a wide margin, would increase the state’s minimum wage on Jan. 1 and guarantee paid sick leave for hundreds of thousands of workers starting May 1.  The lawsuit, filed with the state Supreme…

A tiki bar in The Grove district has closed after being evicted from its space.

Eight Missouri newspapers, including some titles in the St. Louis area, have been sold, effective Jan. 1.

Omnicom Group, the giant advertising firm that owns St. Louis-based FleishmanHillard, said Monday it has agreed to acquire large rival Interpublic Group, whose Weber Shandwick has a St. Louis office.

St. Louis chief information officers and technology leaders joined at the The Chase Park Plaza on Dec. 5, 2024, for the 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Awards, hosted by St.LouisCIO. The Leadership Award winner is Suda Suvarna, Deloitte’s global chief digital solutions delivery officer, senior managing director. The Global winner is Amanda McClerren, CIO and head of digital transformation and information technology, crop science division, Bayer. The Large Enterprise winner is Jessie Minton, vice chancellor…

A product liability and toxic tort team has jumped from a St. Louis-based law firm to open a local office for a growing Providence, Rhode Island-based firm.

The deal had been announced Oct. 31.

(The Center Square) – Even though marijuana is legal in Illinois, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday that the smell of raw cannabis is enough for police to search a vehicle. The case stems from a 2020 traffic stop in Whiteside County when a trooper said he smelled fresh cannabis, conducted a search of the vehicle and found several joints of marijuana in a cardboard box. Victor Molina of Moline, Illinois, was a passenger in the car and was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana…

William "Doc" Worley, who co-founded the Kansas City Business Journal and ended up building a national chain that includes the St. Louis Business Journal, died Saturday.

A rapidly expanding burger joint eyeing multiple locations in the St. Louis region has revealed when its first Missouri location will open, and where its second and third locations are planned.

It’s been more than twelve hours since Amendment 3 went into effect in Missouri. No abortions have begun again at the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics. That’s because officials with Planned Parenthood, which operates health centers across the state, said they are still waiting on a judge’s decision on whether to grant an injunction that would allow abortions without decades’ worth of restrictive targeted regulations on abortion providers, or TRAP, laws. The day after voters narrowly…

The company is leaving Downtown West after 32 years to take significantly less space downtown.

Friday’s board vote means that that 90% of the funding needed to complete the project is in place, Aldermanic President Megan Green said.

Illinois is poised to take the lead in storm shelter safety for warehouses, with state leaders saying climate change is no longer up for debate. The deadly tornado on Dec. 10, 2021, that tore through an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, killing six people, reignited a fierce debate over storm shelters. The disaster left families shattered and a community in mourning, forcing state lawmakers to confront the urgent need for action. “I think Illinois would really be a leader, especially in the Midwest,"…

The company is fighting back against the idea that granting it a permit to operate in the main parking garage at Lambert airport is “unfair” to existing competitors, including St. Louis rental car giant Enterprise.

A $30 million electrical contractor, one of the St. Louis region's biggest, has been sold.