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About $95 million in Missouri marijuana-tax revenue that voters set aside for veterans services, public defenders and drug-addiction treatment programs sat unspent at the end of the last fiscal year.  And budget projections show that unused pile of cash would still be more than $60 million over the next two years unless lawmakers authorize the […]

When he’s not busy trampling free speech, crushing the First Amendment, and destroying media consolidation and consumer protection standards, Brendan Carr has other hobbies. Like helping the telecom industry patriotically sell a brutal coming wave of new layoffs caused by the kind of industry consolidation he regularly rubber stamps. Carr recently began circulating plans for […]

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as they worked through the lesson. One young boy caught her attention. “This student had struggled significantly the year before and often avoided reading tasks,” […]

The Enterprise Center in St. Louis will host four NCAA men's basketball tournament games on Friday, featuring a late-night matchup between the in-state Missouri Tigers and the University of Miami.

Seventy-one percent of counties that spray the most glyphosate have late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rates above the national average, according to a new data analysis from the advocacy group Food and Water Watch. Last month, Investigate Midwest, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship, published an investigation that found 60% of the top […]

St. Louis University's men's basketball team celebrated a record-breaking 102-77 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, marking their first win since 2014 and setting a new school record with 29 victories in a single season.

This week marks 10 months since a deadly tornado tore through parts of St. Louis. As the region enters what has recently been the busiest months for tornadoes, St. Louis’s Emergency Management Agency, which leads disaster response and helps prepare the city in case of emergencies, remains underfunded and understaffed. St. Louis Public Radio's Hiba Ahmad breaks down how long the funding issues have been in place and what the future looks like for the agency.

“Check here if you, or your spouse if filing jointly, want even more of your money to go into the Farm Subsidy Kitty. Taxes might have to increase in the future to pay for it.” Let’s face it: $1.4 trillion dollars is a lot of dough. Adding $20 billion, $10 billion and then $12 billion […]

ST. LOUIS - An amplifying heat dome over the western United States will transfer that warmth eastward through the weekend. The first official weekend of spring will be more summer-like with some record high temperatures in jeopardy. A cold front will halt the warming trend by Sunday night and drop temperatures back into the 50s [...]

The Who has revealed a new set of special autographed posters to raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust.The posters all celebrate the annual Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London’s Royal…

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