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The city of St. Louis said Tuesday it plans to open cafeterias at City Hall and another government building, with hopes of creating a food hall for city employees and the public to use.

The new director is only the third to hold the post since the St. Louis Symphony Chorus was founded in 1976.

The origin story of Agellus – Latin for “little field, small plot of land, small estate” – is grounded in a long-term friendship between two private equity executives who have fulfilled their goal of starting a firm from the ground up.

Four months after Dave Calhoun said he would step down as CEO of The Boeing Co., the aerospace and defense giant, which has big defense operations in the St. Louis area, has tapped its next CEO.

The St. Louis region added 40,000 people to its workforce in the past year, well ahead of the national average. But not all of those are new jobs.

A former bank building on a prominent corner in historic St. Charles will be demolished to make way for a new apartment project.

Five finalists – including a luxury shoe brand and a plant-based skincare business – have been named in Pop Local, a competition in which one entrepreneur can win a rent-free storefront space for three months and a design stipend for their concept.

Schnuck Markets, the St. Louis-based grocery chain, has rolled out new electronic shelf-label software that's meant to improve order accuracy for Instacart shoppers.

Saint Louis Science Center President and CEO Todd Bastean will retire next year, the institution said Tuesday.

The Urban League is leaving its leased space at 8960 Jennings Station Road and moving that operation to the former Centene service center, renamed the Centene Connected Community Center.

A sporting goods company plans to expand and move its headquarters to a mall-turned-industrial site in Hazelwood from Maryland Heights.

The University of Missouri will eliminate its division focused on diversity, social equity and inclusion on the Columbia campus, completing the dismantling of administrative structures put in place after protests in 2015 brought national attention to issues of racial equality. The move coincides with the departure of division Vice Chancellor Maurice Gipson. It is designed to appease Republicans who are showing hostility towards efforts designed to attract and retain students from historically…

Brad Wachler, the former athletics director at Lindenwood University, has joined the St. Louis Sports Commission as its vice president of events.

A Maryland Heights-based manufacturer of indoor air purification technology has named a new president.

The state of Missouri's decision to sell the Wainwright State Office Building complex caught local leaders by surprise, but was in the works for more than a year in a process that seemed to elude downtown’s lawmakers and boosters alike.

The deal between Diamond Sports and Comcast ends a blackout of St. Louis Cardinals' games through Xfinity that's lasted since early May.

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that Missouri’s ban on lawmakers and legislative staff working as lobbyists for two years after leaving office is unconstitutional. First enacted in 2018 as part of a voter-approved initiative called “Clean Missouri,” the revolving-door law was designed to prevent corruption and the appearance of corruption. But the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals found the restriction violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “Missouri had to show…

“Business leaders and financial markets have grown perfectly comfortable with the fact that they are conducting business as usual even as the security alarm, the fire alarm and the smoke alarm are all going off around them,” the Wells economists said.

State of Missouri regulators on Monday OK'd a health system's plan for a new $650 million hospital campus.

In response to demand from existing customers and prospects, the St. Louis-based firm has broadened its service offerings to include artificial intelligence with Microsoft Copilot, automation, virtual chief information officer services, mergers and acquisition technology advisory and Microsoft licensing. Over the past two years, Anders CPAs + Advisors has added seven employees to its technology services practice. And it’s not over.