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This summer just got better: The Saint Louis Art Museum (1 Fine Arts Drive) has announced its Art Hill Film Series will return this July.

Buildings across St. Louis of 50,000 square feet or more must comply with new energy guidelines — or face fines of up to $500 a day beginning in 2025. The manager of the city's new Office of Building Performance explains the new rules, while Cara Spencer, director of the new Building Energy Exchange St. Louis, explains how her organization will help building owners comply.

It still amazes me how unwilling many copyright system supporters are to admit that copyright is regularly used for actual censorship, using the power of the law to suppress speech. The latest example is particularly galling. Over the weekend, a somewhat ridiculous video went viral of a Tesla doing a jump over a hill in […]

Bayer, which acquired Roundup with its $63 billion purchase of St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. in 2018, is attempting avoid potential liability tied to thousands of plaintiffs that could total in the billions of dollars.

The death of the former Missouri state representative shocked St. Louis County and St. Louis City.

ALTON - A 45-year-old man - Thomas J. Hughes - tragically died from injuries suffered in a crash reported at 1:53 a.m. on Saturday, March 19, 2022. Hughes is an Alton resident. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. Alton Police Officers and the Alton Fire Department responded to the area of Illinois Route 140 at the entrance to Gordon Moore Park, in reference to a traffic crash with injuries. Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido said preliminary investigation revealed that a black 2006 Ford pick-up truck was traveling westbound on Illinois Route 140, approaching the entrance to Gordon Moore Park. For an unknown reason, the truck left the north side of the roadway (right side), and the front end of the truck collided with a traffic light fixture. Chief Pulido said the Alton Fire Department had to extricate the driver and sole occupant from this vehicle. The driver was transported to an Alton area hospital where life-saving measures were attempted, but the driver died. This traffic

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The New York giant said it is “working with local partners to dispose of all of its investment positions” in Russia.

The University of Missouri (Mizzou) is hosting its Entrepreneur Quest (EQ) competition tomorrow (UPDATED: here’s the list of winners). The program provides students with tools and resources to launch their business and contribute to economic prosperity in our community. Much like on the television series Shark Tank, 10 student teams will have up to seven […]

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public's help identifying suspects in an assault and robbery.

A lawyer for one of the defendants called the practice of dropping and refiling cases on the day of trial "an abuse of the system."

“We wanted a name that more accurately reflected the business we’ve evolved to,” said John Howe, CEO.

Ronald L. Holland was shot to death by Danyel Johnson, someone he reportedly knew for many years, police said.

You've all heard of the famous terracotta army assembled by the Qin dynasty emperor Qin Shi Huang at his imperial capital in Xianyang. Well, this is the not-quite-as-famous terracotta rabbit army assembled by the Drum dynasty empress Marian in her imperial capital of Irvine. Someday these two armies will have it out. My money is ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

CARLINVILLE - The Great Horned owls of Forest Park in St. Louis will be the topic of a free program hosted by the Carlinville Public Library at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 7. “Forest Park Owls: Hiding in Plain Sight” will be presented by Mark H.X. Glenshaw, an award-winning naturalist and expert from St. Louis who delivers programs to enthusiastic audiences around the region. Glenshaw has documented the life of Charles, a male Great Horned Owl from Forest Park, as well as his five mates and various offspring, for over sixteen years. “My official start date was Dec. 29, 2005. I call it my ‘owl-i-versary’,” laughed Glenshaw, a manager of university services at Fontbonne University. “Since then, I’ve spent countless hours following Charles and the owls around him.” Glenshaw and his fascinating owl studies have been covered by many media outlets in the area. He delivers around fifty programs a year, mostly in Illinois and Missouri.

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Over the last few years we’ve seen this ongoing bizarre infatuation with “cancel culture” despite little evidence to suggest that it’s a serious issue. As we wrote nearly two years ago, in response to Harper’s trying to sound some sort of vague alarm about cancel culture, so much of the debate conflates a variety of […]

The Godfather of Funk is not quite ready for retirement! George Clinton is hitting the road with Parliament Funkadelic this summer for the One Nation Under a Groove tour. The…

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Today on TAP: A Trump-era law, the Corporate Transparency Act, can help.

The initial dates and lineups have been announced for the 2022 edition of Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival Tour, which will feature ZZ Top at select events. The trek is…

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