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Band together has brought LGBTQ musicians and allies together in St. Louis since 1997. What started as an excuse to march in a pride parade has grown much larger.

Music fans will again gather in Grand Center this fall when the Music at the Intersection festival returns for a second year, with national headliners like Erykah Badu, Gary Clark Jr, and plenty of room for local acts. Organizers say the young festival is here to stay.

WBEZ's Dave McKinney investigates the financial holdings of Ken Griffin, Illinois' wealthiest person and the financier of a challenger to Gov. JB Pritzker.

Nonprofits and advocates in Missouri to enroll working to enroll people in Medicaid when they’re released from prison in order to keep them from coming back.

Sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine has meant less fertilizer on the market for farmers, which means higher prices and concerned farmers.

A new Pulitzer Art Foundation exhibition focuses on audience participation. The show encourages people to pick up, fold or wrap some of the artwork around themselves.

The Missouri House is sending a measure to the Senate that could move millions of dollars from public schools in St. Louis and Kansas City to charter schools. A fiscal analysis indicates schools in the St. Louis district could lose more than $18-million.

Some Missouri residents say they are putting off health care needs because the state has been slow to approve Medicaid applications. The governor's office expected roughly 275-thousand people to gain coverage in the first year of Medicaid expansion. Only about 60-thousand have signed up so far.

Midwestern lakes are a hotbed of toxic algae blooms, largely caused by agricultural runoff. Without regular testing, visitors to lakes in many states have no idea what they're getting into.

Workers at a small business in Missouri are from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. All are working together while closely monitoring the war involving their home countries.

Legal advocates are going to court to seek benefits for Missourians who they say are being illegally shut out by a protracted application process.

Former Illinois House Speaker and ex-Democratic Party boss Michael Madigan has been indicted in federal court for racketeering. The indictment cites alleged bribery schemes.

The contract for deed or rent-to-own option is marketed as a way for people who can’t get a conventional mortgage to own a home. But more often than not, buyers do not end up as homeowners.

St. Louis is an old city and houses from the 1880s fill entire neighborhoods. The Missouri Historical Society can help homeowners who are curious about the history of their property.

Missouri officials are planning an official end to the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health crisis in mid-March. They will shift to treating the coronavirus similar to the flu. Scientists say it’s too soon to declare an end to the outbreak.

U.S. Senators from Missouri and Illinois want the U.S. to go beyond the sanctions against Russia already announced by President Joe Biden. Their comments follow Russia’s decision to invade neighboring Ukraine in what U.S. defense officials describe as the largest European conventional military attack since World War II.

For much of the last decade, the FarFetched music label in St. Louis united rap, electronic, R&B and experimental musicians to create a vibrant collective that still influences the local scene today.

For enslaved people in western Missouri, the muddy Missouri River was all that separated them from Kansas, and freedom. Many waited until winter and went through the ice in what became known as slave stampedes.

A new company has acquired 10 minor league baseball teams, including the top minor league squad in the Cardinals system. Those purchases are in the shadow of collective bargaining in the big leagues, which has put spring training on hold.

Missouri is among the last states to distribute federal education funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. Education leaders are urging state lawmakers to appropriate the money before a March 24 deadline.