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The redistricting process takes place once per decade to adjust for changes in population.

While St. Louis County Council Chair Rita Days held up final vote on convention center bonds, interest rates rose.

Caleb Gage of Ballwin drowned after his canoe capsized near a low-water dam by Howell Island Conservation Area.

A Riverview man, 18, has been charged with murder in connection to a homicide in Pine Lawn last fall.

The trolley, which hasn’t run regularly since the end of 2019 due to financial and operational problems, will operate Thursdays through Sundays until Oct. 15. Plans call for it to start up again next spring.

Schnucks union leaders said they just secured the best new contract in union history. It was approved by union members in a vote Wednesday.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is investigating after two people were shot and one died from his injuries in Pagedale on Wednesday afternoon.

An Illinois state senator from Glen Carbon was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to take over as the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.

The only available information was that the child was 0 to 9 years old. The death occurred during the week starting May 8.

An 8-month-old was struck by a car and injured Wednesday afternoon in downtown St. Louis.

Lt. Col. Michael Sack, who has been with the St. Louis department for 27 years, takes over next month for police Chief John Hayden, who will retire June 18.

Lt. Michael Reifschneider says he lost a promised promotion because he refused an order to lower the score in another officer’s job evaluation.

Mark Pirozzi, owner of Pirozzi Painting LLC, received probation for failing to report more than $200,000 in business income from 2015 to 2017.

A St. Louis County veteran admitted embezzling Veterans Administration disability compensation from 2000 to 2020 for a service-connected eye injury.

The proposed facility would provide service for patients in need of post-surgery care, rehabilitation and physical therapy.

St. Louis County-owned job training hub the Met Center could add major new tenant in Lincoln University.

Drug overdose deaths in Missouri increased by 19% from 2019 to 2020, data shows. A total of 1,878 lives were lost to drugs in 2020 — the highest number on record.

Donnell Rawlings, known as the "king of 'too soon,'" no doubt will live up that title when he performs at Helium Comedy Club.

Meanwhile, Blunt calls it “an outrageous theory…. I totally rejected it as any reasonable discussion to be had.”

Backers say it would ensure smaller projects that can still kick up potentially radioactive soil get the same testing and remediation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as government and utility projects do.