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Jason Purnell, BJC's vice president of community health improvement, said the plan focuses on access to healthy food, infant and maternal health, schools, and economic health.

Gov. Mike Parson said Paula Nickelson could serve the remainder of his term without going through a contentious Senate confirmation process.

The bill would ban athletes assigned male at birth from competing on girls’ sports teams.

The state retirement system holds an estimated $13 million in Russian holdings.

Alderman Christine Ingrassia says the goal is to set standard procedures while protecting the ‘dignity and humanity of our unhoused neighbors.’

The Eureka Republican did not respond to an interview request.

Proposed constitutional amendment removing prohibition on restrictions on Medicaid eligibility would go to voters in 2022.

Some members last week said there was not enough detail in the measure, which would allow voluntary donations added to water and property tax bills.

A man was found Tuesday morning with a fatal puncture wound in the 4900 block of Goodfellow Boulevard, St. Louis police said.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker came to rely on Dr. Ngozi Ezike not just for medical guidance but also for help communicating with Spanish-speaking Illinois residents.

A new fund from nonprofit lender Justine Petersen hopes to help St. Louisans with bad credit cut their auto loan interest rate.

Earl G. Rice was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting an Illinois minor and producing child pornography.

A 34-year-old Belleville man has been accused of possessing child pornography.

One house was destroyed and another heavily damaged after an explosion in O'Fallon, Missouri.

A local firefighter union has sued the city of St. Louis after a commission gave the mayor power to appoint an interim personnel director.

Here are some things to be aware of starting March 9.

Elissa Lindhorst was pronounced dead at a hospital after being found unresponsive in her cell.

Pritzker’s action follows similar overtures in other states to protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after entering a plea Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the shooting death of his wife in University City in 2016.

The People’s Convoy is one of several trucker-led protests, and likely the largest, heading to the Washington, D.C., area this week.