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Mild weather means smooth sailing at St. Louis Airport

1 day 1 hour ago
Holiday travel is in full swing now, with people heading out and coming home to St. Louis just before Christmas this Thursday. Things are steady at St. Louis Lambert International Airport—no long lines and no major backups. But travelers say this was not the case at every airport they passed through on their holiday travels.
Caroline Pettey

Mayor Cara Spencer looks back on 2025

1 day 1 hour ago
St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer sat down with FOX 2's Mandy Murphey for a look back at what she has been able to accomplish since taking over the officer earlier this year.
Mandy Murphey

Trump Admin Reinvents US Digital Services Program After Elon Musk Fired All Their Actual Tech Experts

1 day 2 hours ago
Here’s a fun game the Trump administration keeps playing: destroy a successful government program, wait a few months, then breathlessly announce you’ve “invented” the exact same thing but with obvious corruption mechanisms baked in. Last week, the administration excitedly announced a new “Tech Force”—a program to bring tech talent into government for two-year stints to […]
Mike Masnick

Illinois Leaders React To Supreme Court Decision in Trump v. Illinois

1 day 4 hours ago
Statement from Governor Pritzker on the Supreme Court’s Decision in Trump v. Illinois CHICAGO – Today, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump Administration’s request to deploy National Guard troops in the state: “Today is a big win for Illinois and American democracy. I am glad the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump did not have the authority to deploy the federalized guard in Illinois.

HFS To Increase Funding For Planned Parenthood To Protect Reproductive Healthcare Access Across Illinois

1 day 5 hours ago
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is investing $4 million in Medicaid family planning programming in order to counteract the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood in Trump’s budget bill (HR1), as Illinois continues to serve as a beacon for protecting reproductive healthcare access nationally. The funding will go towards critical services that many Illinoisans rely on, like contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and