Downtown St. Louis

The health insurance company Elevance, known as Anthem in Missouri, is hiring 250 new employees to work at its downtown St. Louis office. City leaders celebrated the news, which comes as other high-profile tenants are leaving the city's core.

The region’s urban core has struggled to rebound since the pandemic, with a slew of companies relocating their offices away from downtown. Urban centers with more diverse economic sectors have shown to be more resilient coming back from the pandemic.

Rated Test Kitchen’s menu will be experimental and fuse many cultures, flavors, textures and presentations — while sourcing most of the ingredients locally.

The city extended its weekend evening hours at the Dunn-Marquette and Wohl community centers and launched a teen zone in Downtown, after a shooting in June left one teen dead and 11 injured.

New census data shows the St. Louis metropolitan region lost around 19,000 people between April 2020 and July 2022. St. Louis and St. Louis County led the declines while suburban and exurban counties, like St. Charles, Lincoln and Jefferson, posted gains as they have in the past.

There needs to be a reason for employees to return to the office, since the pandemic proved remote work was viable.

Mike McLively of the Giffords Center for Violence Intervention said the city needs to improve overall safety by investing in programs that support mental health and housing security.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones says she wants to follow cities that reduced crime by making investments in youth.

St. Louis police said they have one juvenile in custody following the shooting on Washington Avenue near 14th Street early Sunday morning.

“St. Louis put in the effort years ago to have this new facility built here and then recognized that that was not the end of the journey, that was the beginning of the journey,” said the former leader of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.