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Seventy-six percent of Missouri residents, including large majorities across the political spectrum, believe the state legislature should increase access to birth control for Missourians, according to a new public opinion survey.

Healthy Blue Missouri awarded The Ferguson Youth Initiative (FYI) a $20,000 grant to address social health problems that contribute to homelessness, poverty, and family crises.

St. Louis County Councilwoman Shalonda Webb on Wednesday confirmed she is working to find funding to demolish the Jamestown Mall building, which has sat vacant for years.

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on all five counts against him earlier today for fatally shooting two people Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and shooting Gaige Grosskreutz who was left paralyzed.

Legislators released a fourth draft of the city’s proposed ward map Tuesday, which included just a few changes from last week’s map.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, former state Rep. Jamilah Nasheed and St. Louis Treasurer Adam Layne have joined a growing list of local elected officials in opposition to the use of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital name on a modest new…

McCarthy Building Companies and HITT Contracting, the joint venture building the $1.7 billion, under-construction campus of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, recently announced the project has surpassed its goal of awarding 28% of all subcontracted dollars to small businesses.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday joined President Joe Biden in Washington D.C. for the signing of the historic $1.75 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush confirmed last week she will run for a second term representing Missouri’s 1st Congressional District.

When Dr. Will Ross was growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, he witnessed the shooting death of a Black teenage boy.

In 2019, ArchCity Defenders and partners from across the country challenged a system of cash bail that routinely caused people to be jailed pretrial in St. Louis because they could not afford to buy their freedom. Last month, a federal…

175 years ago, a group of enslaved people founded a church in what’s now known as Chesterfield. They were granted the land, which they couldn’t even legally own at the time, by Missouri slaveholder Maria Long.

Demonstrators castigated developer Paul McKee on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, for his stubborn insistence on using the name Homer G. Phillips on a three-bed healthcare facility near Jefferson and Cass.

As St. Louis made national headlines with the arrest of alleged serial killer Perez Reed, new data reveals the city has seen a 29% drop in homicides compared to this time last year.

Justin King’s mother Eva Bruns did her best to hold it together Thursday morning as she stood before members of the media at William C. Harris Funeral Home in Spanish Lake.

Some St. Louis City officials and the community are fighting back against Paul McKee’s insistence that the Homer G. Phillips’ name will not be removed from a new medical facility.