The Gateway

Rural areas are losing stores to consolidation but some residents have come up with innovative solutions.

Officials at the military base need to comply with Pentagon directives to convert all non-tactical vehicles to electric. They are contracting with a local utility to help reach the goal.

For nearly a century, the St. Louis American has been a trusted news source for Black St. Louisans. Rudolph Clay, an African-American Studies and Urban Studies Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis, talks about the paper's impact as it celebrates its 95th anniversary.

Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in many states have sent women traveling, in search of procedures and pills they can no longer legally get at home. A volunteer pilot organization is helping.

Lawmakers and the Attorney General in Missouri are stepping up their efforts to restrict rights if transgender children. Like many other states, Missouri is seeking action to reduce the ability of trans minors to get gender affirming care and to participate in sports. (Rod Milam in for Wayne Pratt.)

The Missouri Senate debated a few bills throughout the night that would place new restrictions on transgender youth in Missouri. Democrats filibustered the legislation into the morning, but after a short recess the senate gave first round approval to the bills.

This year’s Missouri legislative session has been moving bills faster than in previous years. Lawmakers quickly passed the supplemental budget which included pay raises for state workers and have moved forward on extending maternal Medicaid care, foreign ownership of farmland, parental bill of rights, state control of the St. Louis police department and creating a special prosecutor in St. Louis. Still to come are bills targeting transgender people.

The first U.S. solo exhibition by Faye HeavyShield invokes the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and the Mississippian mound building culture. She is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kanai Nation in Alberta.

Proposals affecting transgender Missourians have moved to the top of the Republican agenda in Jefferson City.

Three works debut this week in an initiative to bring new voices to American opera. The effort focuses on artists excluded from predominantly white opera institutions in the past.

Legislation is being proposed at the federal and state level to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, especially by China. The scrutiny comes after a Midwestern project was scuttled by military concerns and the flight of a Chinese spy balloon across the U.S.

The Illinois State Police says homicides in East St. Louis are roughly 30% over the last four years. The mayor wants that trend to continue.

The St. Louis Battlehawks return to the Dome this weekend. They were off to a great start in 2020 when the pandemic shut down the XFL. Fans are hoping to pick up where the enthusiasm left off before the outbreak.

Rural residents can be miles away from doctors and grocery stores. That forces many without cars to move closer to essential services.

Gentleman Jim Gates was the first St. Louis DJ to play rap music on the radio. He included "Rapper’s Delight" on East St. Louis station WESL. Gates says the record was a watershed moment for the genre across the region.

The Jefferson College student started writing her debut album when a music teacher suggested it could be a way to work through her grief over the death of her twin sister.

The Jefferson College student started writing her debut album when a music teacher suggested it could be a way to work through her grief over the death of her twin sister.

After studying satellite images, researchers have found the use of cover crops on Midwestern farmland has quadrupled over the past decade. But the crops that can help prevent erosion and give farmers an additional revenue source are still on less than 10% of farms.

After years of preparation, St. Louis's Major League Soccer team is set for its home debut. Soccer enthusiasts are hoping this is the start of a long-lasting era of professional sports in the city.

The district has been under fire after cutting some diversity programs. Black students want the initiatives restored so they can better navigate mostly white schools.