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Here are reporter Steph Kukuljan's five most memorable stories from 2021.

Elk were reintroduced into Missouri 10 years ago after being hunted to extinction.

Maurice Hunt ran for mayor of the north St. Louis County community in April, but lost.

Kent Hamm was shot in the head and crashed his vehicle into a building in the Kingsway East neighborhood.

The Civil Service Commission members requested more say in the city's police chief search Monday.

Their luxuriant soaps soon propelled Woodberry from a small startup in the winter of 2019 to a full-on business that’s outgrown its spacious studio and the garage expansion the two built at their Lafayette Square home.

Commissioners voted against Lux Living's plan even after the city agency failed to include a report detailing structural problems at the property.

Some Personnel Department employees were briefly locked out of their offices while documents were secured amid a whistleblower investigation.

There are 158,169 patients active in the state’s medical marijuana program, along with 3,283 caregivers.

A round-number birthday was involved, but Daniel Neman's trip home was all about the food.

On Dec. 21, 1979, the nationally-ranked Mizzou Tigers came to town to play St. Louis U. in a game that many thought would be a blowout. Instead fans were treated to an overtime thriller.

Illinois reported about 12,330 new COVID-19 cases, the highest daily total in more than a year.

Belleville police said a customer fired shots into a fast-food restaurant after an argument over a drive-thru order on Friday night.

Local participation in the program remains low, though it has slowly increased since 2019, mirroring the national trend.

Mizzou-Army is a pretty compelling game, all things considered.

The new preliminary injunction, issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Noce, prohibits enforcement of the contractors’ vaccine mandate in 10 states.

"A lot of cool stuff happens in this room."

James P. Izard, 37, was found dead after a shootout with police Saturday night in Jerseyville, police said.

Now there will be two similar events on separate days.

The Missouri General Assembly lost significant chunks of time during their legislative sessions in the past two years because of COVID-19