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ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis Board of Aldermen bill that would significantly raise water rates for city residents is set to go before a critical committee Wednesday. Board Bill 25 will be presented to the Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee before returning to the full Board of Aldermen for final votes. The bill has [...]

The Illinois Attorney General is warning travelers to beware of scams targeting people planning summer getaways, such as fake vacation rentals and deals that look too good to be true, and to check reviews, news articles and the Better Business Bureau before booking.

The organization's president says he is proud it has always "been on the right side of history."

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners is set to meet Tuesday to consider a controversial raise proposal for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. The meeting comes after a judge ruled against the police board in a critical funding dispute with City Hall over how much general revenue should be used [...]

Council votes to reverse the city Landmarks Board's decision to block the demolition of three buildings requested by Immanuel Lutheran Church.

The federal government released new guidance this week on how states should roll out the Medicaid work requirements that will affect  healthcare coverage for millions of Americans. The new interim rule, issued by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is intended to give states more details on how they’re supposed to verify the […]

The five-story development, called Two Foundry Way, would be built just east of the 270-unit apartment complex off Forest Park and South Vandeventer avenues.

The City Council this week advanced a bill to sell the land, at 17159 Edison Ave., to Staenberg Advisors for $250,000.

Complex would be first residential component in the mixed-use development planned for along the Missouri River.

In a financial filing posted Tuesday, the university said it sold 12 properties, most of them houses, in Webster Groves for a combined $11.6 million.

Monekea Smith-Taylor owned a consulting firm and received money from school districts for services that were never provided then gave a superintendent half of the proceeds.

“I’ve forgiven you. I deep down know it was a mistake,” the mother said. “… I wanted to look you in your face and see if you’re remorseful.”

The nearly donations make clear that the August ballot measure is quickly becoming one of Missouri’s most expensive and politically consequential fights of the year.

Fifteen people say they were physically assaulted by staff, and some sexually abused by other residents, at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri that takes in children from across the country.

ST. LOUIS - Lower humidity and tons of sunshine, sounds like amazing June weather to me. We saw that on Tuesday and we’ll see it again on Wednesday, tons of sunshine, a comfortably cool morning, and highs in the low 80s. It will be warmer, but still dry, on Thursday. Top temperatures will be in [...]

The 25th anniversary edition of New York's Tribeca Festival gets underway on Wednesday with the debut of a documentary on Earth, Wind & Fire, followed by a performance by the…

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The long-promoted transcontinental eventually went through Chicago, but St. Louis interests pushed hard to be a railroad center.

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