A bill that would allow students to enroll in neighboring school districts won initial approval in the Missouri House for the fourth year in a row Tuesday on an 83-69 vote.
It is the first bill to be debated by the full House this legislative session. It must be approved one more time by the House before it is sent to the Senate for consideration.
Bill sponsor Rep. Brad Pollitt, a Republican from Sedalia, described the proposal as “minor compared to what others want to do.”
“The…
Bills seeking to expand charter schools into three Missouri counties were approved Monday by the House Special Committee on Education Reform.
The proposals were combined into one substitute bill after the committee voted to adopt an amendment by the committee chair, state Rep. Bishop Davidson of Republic. Committee members voted 7-2 in favor of the bills, with one member voting present.
The bills – sponsored by Republican Reps. Brad Christ of St. Louis, Justin Hicks of Lake St. Louis and Rep.…
The lawsuit alleges that more than $170,000 worth of grapes rotted on the vine after the winery led a Missouri grape grower to believe it intended purchase his entire yield, before only purchasing a fraction.
Jean Carnahan, the first Missouri woman to become a U.S. senator, died Tuesday evening after a brief illness, according to her family. She was 90 years old.
Carnahan, the widow of Missouri's 51st governor, Democrat Mel Carnahan, became the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate after she was appointed to the seat that her husband posthumously won in 2000.
“Mom passed peacefully after a long and rich life," her family said in a statement. "She was a fearless trailblazer. She was brilliant,…
Post Holdings Inc., the Brentwood-based consumer packaged goods holding company, said Robert Vitale returned Tuesday to his "full duties" as president and chief executive, ending his medical leave.
A new study shows St. Louis Lambert International Airport could drive $32.4 billion per year in economic activity, up nearly $5 billion from 2019, when its $3 billion plan to reconfigure the facility with a new, single terminal is completed.
The mayor planned to meet with state legislators and advocate for her administration’s priorities including maintaining the city’s earnings 1% earnings tax and retaining local control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
St. Louis lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a plan to subject a more than 800-acre area in North City to eminent domain, in what they described as a community-driven process that would give tools for future development.
Missouri Republican Senate leaders on Tuesday won confirmation for all of Gov. Mike Parson’s pending appointees to state office as members of the Freedom Caucus backed down from a demand that the upper chamber approve initiative petition changes as the price for confirmation.
For almost 16 hours, members of the caucus and their allies held the floor as Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden sought a vote on more than 40 people appointed to state jobs, local government posts and roles on boards…
Maryland Heights-based World Wide Technology has formed a partnership with a San Francisco venture capital firm to increase its access to innovative cybersecurity technologies.
A quick-service burger chain has signed with a local operating group to open eight St. Louis-area stores in the next five years. But the Atlanta-based company’s plans don’t stop there, as it expects to open as many as 25 stores in the region over the next 10 years.
A city board approved demolition of a vacant building to allow a developer who plans $200 million in projects in Downtown West to move forward on one of the first projects planned – a six-story apartment complex and a parking garage.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investing Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis over the misspending of federal security money, according to a report from Punchbowl.
United Steelworkers opened up another front in its fight against the $14.9 billion proposed acquisition of United States Steel, saying winning bidder Nippon Steel Corp. hasn’t provided enough information about the financial condition of its U.S. subsidiary.
A Georgia man with connections to St. Louis pleaded guilty Monday to charges related to fraudulently obtaining a pandemic loan, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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