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The American Heart Association is helping local organizations improve the health in the St. Louis metro area. Applications are now open for Community Impact Grants to local organizations working to promote sustainable health improvement changes where we live, work, learn,…

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, ceremonially swears in St. Louis native Candace Bond as Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, next to Bond's husband Steven McKeever, Sr., Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, from Harris' ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building…

World Wide Technology (WWT) and United Way of Greater St. Louis recently partnered on a volunteer project to recently assemble 1,500 reading kits to deliver to several local nonprofits and children throughout the region.

St. Louis Teacher Residency has received an unsolicited, one-time donation of $1.5 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott to expand and improve its work preparing and supporting candidates pursuing a career in high-needs public schools in the St. Louis region.

More people who need shelter will be able to find a place to stay, with two apartment buildings catering to homeless people opening in north St. Louis. But hundreds more people without reliable shelter will face dangerous conditions on the…

The City Water Division issued a precautionary boil water advisory for portions of its service area due to low water pressure caused by a broken 36” water main.

Young Black and Latino voters were critical in holding off the Republican “red wave” in several battleground states for U.S. Senate seats and in tight U.S. House races in the midterm elections, according to analyses by researchers and grassroot organizations.

Standing on the Missouri Capitol steps moments after being released from prison, Bobby Bostic said the first place he planned to visit was his mother’s grave in St. Louis — a city he’d last freely walked in 1995.

Former Alderman Terry Kennedy (D-18th Ward) was culturally reflective when discussing the recent passing of his twin brother, Gary (Dhati) Samuel Kennedy. Most St. Louisans knew him as “Dhati Majaliwa” which in Kiswahili means “Free will, determination, and talented.”

The St. Louis community will get its chance to say good-bye to one of its most iconic figures this week in the great Martin Mathews, who passed away last week at the age of 97.

Sharonica Hardin-Bartley, Ph.D., superintendent of University City School District has been selected to serve on the national American Heart Association [AHA] Superintendent Council.

Great Rivers Greenway and Forest ReLeaf of Missouri have been named as the 2022 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardees for their work in the St. Louis community removing economic barriers and advancing environmental opportunity.

The St. Louis Press Club hosted its 28th Annual Media Persons of the Year Awards Dinner last Thursday (Nov. 3), at the Edward Jones St. Louis Headquarters honoring 10 journalistic professionals.

For three generations, the corner of Penrose and Kingshighway has been considered sacred ground for young people coming up in North City and North County. And as co-founders of Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club, Martin Mathews and Hubert “Dickey” Ballentine…

In an East St. Louis tradition, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church will host its fifth annual Thanksgiving Community outreach event “Thanksgiving 2 Go” meal box distribution at 9 a.m. Saturday, November 19, 2022.

Teach For America (TFA) St. Louis is the recipient of a $140,000 grant from Bayer Fund which will be used to develop and support Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) educators in St. Louis city and county.

Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club co-founders Martin Mathews and Hubert “Dickey” Ballentine were sitting under a shade tree in Tandy Park in the 1950s when they decided to start a Boys club for children in North City like the ones…

The sun shined brightly, and a warm breeze hugged all that attended the “A Family Undivided” remembrance ceremony and celebration at Central Visual Performing Arts high School on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.