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The MICA Project's Advocacy Director explains how community members can help respond to ICE activities in the metro area.

Friday morning starts mostly cloudy with temperatures around 19 degrees. By afternoon, expect a high near 44 degrees with breezy west winds gusting up to 29 mph and a chance for a light snow shower—up to a coating in total. Evening brings continued breezy conditions with a couple of snow showers and temperatures dropping into the lower 30s. Overnight lows reach 19 degrees, with lingering flurries and gusty winds continuing around 24 mph. Saturday remains cloudy and very cold, with high temperatures

Aisha Sultan writes: Missouri’s trapped in a persistent, downward cycle of not investing in public education and losing its brightest and talented young adults because better opportunities lure them elsewhere.

More Missouri public school students could receive gifted education under two proposals debated by the House Education Committee Thursday. State Rep. Brenda Shields, a Republican from St. Joseph, is sponsoring a bill that would require schools to screen all students to determine if they qualify as gifted before they reach third grade. She estimates that […]

Demonstrations against ICE and US military actions in Venezuela have spread throughout the St. Louis region.

This week the Missouri State Board of Education voted to lower St. Louis Public Schools’ accreditation status to “provisional.” On the same day, Governor Mike Kehoe signed an executive order requiring state education leaders to create a new way to evaluate school districts. Education reporter Hiba Ahmad breaks down a big week of education news.

Missouri cannabis regulators have changed their guidance on whether or not medical marijuana patients can purchase from licensed dispensaries as a regular consumer, following complaints over the last year that the state’s policy was an unconstitutional restriction. But the update ended up causing more confusion about what patients can or can’t do, cannabis advocates say.  […]

ST. LOUIS - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend is here, but it will come with lingering frigid temperatures. Despite the cold, several events are scheduled, including one tied to the Mardi Gras season and another celebrating MLK Day. SLSO Community Concert - Let it Resound: The Legacy of Black Composers Friday, Jan. 16 at [...]

House Bill 2933, filed by Rep. Brad Christ on Tuesday, a south St. Louis County Republican, would allow districts to withdraw from Special School District.

Like other cases involving past police liability, city of St. Louis argues new local control bill shifts responsibility to the state.

ST. LOUIS - It's possible to see a few sprinkles or flurries through Friday morning, but impacts are not anticipated. It will be mostly cloudy and breezy, with temperatures rebounding to the mid 40s. Scattered snow showers will develop Friday afternoon and move southeast through the evening along with another cold front. These snow showers [...]

Two of Van Morrison’s iconic albums, 1968’s Astral Weeks and 1970’s Moondance, are the first releases of the new Acoustic Sounds 40th Anniversary Series, part of a partnership between Analogue…

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The agency has long tried to curb carbon emissions and protect human health. Critics say it’s giving up on both.

The administration has done real damage to climate action, experts say. But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.

Observers say Egereva’s case highlights the risks Indigenous advocates face when they challenge powerful governments on climate and human rights.