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Illinois law expands affordable housing investments

2 hours 31 minutes ago
Affordable housing investments are expanding under a new Illinois law. Senate Bill 3086 allows Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs to invest in the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. The fund is focused on building and preserving affordable and workforce housing, creating union construction jobs and fostering community development. The treasurer and labor leaders toured a 72-story [...]
Brian Weckerly

Illinois tourism hits high of $50.2 billion

2 hours 32 minutes ago
Illinois tourism just hit a new record. Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity announced record-breaking growth across Illinois’ tourism industry in 2025. Visitor spending hit an all-time high of $50.2 billion. That mark is up 3.5 percent from the previous year and helped generate more than $88 billion in [...]
Brian Weckerly

Victims of Neosho deadly plane crash identified

3 hours 30 minutes ago
NEOSHO, Mo. — We learned today the names of the two people killed in a plane crash in Neosho yesterday. The Newton County coroner says Karl Kemp, 72, of Neosho, was the pilot of the Zenith CH-701 that crashed near the Camp Crowder area, and his passenger was Larry Howard, 42, of Granby. The National [...]
Bobbie Pottorff

Costco opening 14 new warehouses in Missouri, elsewhere in U.S.

7 hours 2 minutes ago
(NEXSTAR) – It's not just chicken chains and massive travel centers that are expanding. Warehouse giant Costco is on track to open more than a dozen new stores in the next few months, many of which will be throughout the U.S. With these new warehouses will undoubtedly come the popular Kirkland items that Costco cut [...]
Addy Bink

Lanes reopen on Interstate 44 after crash in Eureka

8 hours 30 minutes ago
EUREKA, Mo. - All lanes were closed for an extended period of time on a portion of Interstate 44 Tuesday morning after a crash in Eureka. According to the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), the incident occurred shortly after 7:45 a.m. on westbound I-44 before Six Flags Road. Details on the crash are unclear. The [...]
Nick Gladney

Ferguson Police Department issue apology over inappropriate social media comment

10 hours 12 minutes ago
FERGUSON, Mo. - The Ferguson Police Department issued an apology late Sunday night for an inappropriate comment posted on the department's social media page. The apology stems from an interaction on a Facebook post between the department and a resident following a multi-vehicle crash Sunday night in the area of Keelen Drive and W. Florissant [...]
Nick Gladney

Hot temperatures make a comeback, storms late Wednesday

11 hours 20 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS - Highs of 90 F on Sunday and just 87 F on Labor Day felt so much nicer but we will heat back up on Tuesday and Wednesday. High temperatures will push back into the mid-90s Tuesday, but humidity will be slower to rebound. So, it will be a dry heat. Hot AND [...]
Angela Hutti