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St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer has an $88,000 to $12,000 fundraising advantage over City Councilman Tom Besselman, his opponent in Tuesday's election.

The final four of college chess is in St. Louis this weekend, and three of the four semifinalists are Missouri teams, including two from St. Louis.

St. Louis area leaders passed laws against declawing cats. They followed the advice of veterinarians. Why does the Missouri Legislature care?

The ramp from eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) to northbound Interstate 270 will shut down much of this weekend to allow for rehab work. Motorists also will encounter lane closures on both sides of 270 near 40/64.

Parson replaces judge who left to work for Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

Her position puts her at odds with Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, who has championed such a ban in Congress.

Prosecutors dismissed charges against a former Berkeley mayor and in return the 84-year-old councilman agreed to not seek re-election or any other public office.

St. Louis police received 2,677 reports of stolen vehicles in St. Louis during a three-month peak last summer. During that time, only 23 adults were charged with car theft-related crimes, according to a Post-Dispatch analysis.

A 32-year-old man on Thursday was sentenced to life for a 2019 mass shooting that left five men dead in a north St. Louis County apartment.

The House sponsor of the restrictions vowed to keep fighting for the limits.

Nowadays it would be treated as snowmageddon. But the heaviest snowstorm St. Louis has ever recorded did not even make front-page news on March 31, 1890.

A cold front is expected to at least bring severe, scattered thunderstorms to the St. Louis area on Friday.

The estimated $50 billion spending plan now goes to the Senate.

Health department investigators say they discovered Wednesday that the store had multiple coolers that were too warm for seafood.

The DEA would like it to try.

Lohmar, who was just reelected in November, said in a statement he “could no longer give this job the energy and attention it requires.”

The upcoming mayoral election here between an incumbent and a perennial candidate is sparking debate about what it will take for Ferguson to accelerate, the impact of leadership and what progress has been made over the past decade.

St. Louis’ population dropped 2.38% from July 2021 to July 2022, to 286,578, according to census estimates. St. Louis County and the overall region also lost residents but outer suburban areas continued to gain.

Reginald Bagley, 62, will be required to pay back the roughly $198,500 he received as part of his sentence.

Keith Wolkoff spent 10 years as president of Paric.