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There is an effort to restore links between Native Americans and foods unique to their culture. Centuries of colonization disrupted that connection leading to food insecurity and health disparities.

St. Louis welcomed the first in a new wave of refugees from Afghanistan. A family touched down at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Monday. City leaders say the Azimi family are the first of many refugee families they hope to welcome to the area. This all goes back to one effort, known as the Afghan Rescue Project, spearheaded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander. "They know St. Louis is their home even though they've never been there," Kander said. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura…

Rushing water on the roads in St. Louis county.

An exclusive FOX4/Emerson College poll shows Attorney General Eric Schmitt is now in the lead with one week to go until the Aug. 2 primary.

St. Louis has had historic rainfall since early Tuesday morning.

Nearly two decades ago, Beckie Jacobs set up shop in Webster Groves, determined to build one of the area's premier ice cream brands, Serendipity Homemade Ice Cream (4400 Manchester Avenue, 314-833-3800). Now, she's bringing her brand to a new home in the Grove, determined to build on her success and make her stretch of Manchester Avenue a little bit sweeter. "Webster Groves was really good to me for 19 years, but the city has also been very welcoming," Jacobs says.

With the US dollar at a 20-year high, it’s time to take advantage of the direct flights from St. Louis to Frankfurt.

Aug. 2 primary pits Sam Page, a former state legislator who chaired the council in opposition to Steve Stenger, against Jane Dueker, a former Stenger adviser and assistant state’s attorney general.

When she arrived Monday night to hear former Gov. Eric Greitens campaign for U.S. Senate in downtown Kansas City, Christine Thompson was on the fence.  It wasn’t the accusations of child abuse — made in a sworn affidavit by his ex-wife — that gave her pause about Greitens. Nor was it the accusations of sexual assault that […]

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Heavy rain and thunderstorms Tuesday morning as a lot of water is covering roadways already.

Several road closures have been taking place early Tuesday morning as flash flooding severely affects traffic.

In the past two years, nearly 20 percent of the iconic trees have been destroyed by wildfire.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell has been busy this year touring with his own band The Dirty Knobs, whose second album, External Combustion, was released in March.…

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City allegedly addresses illegal dumping complaints by people of color more slowly than those from white residents.

Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.

Today on TAP: When the spending’s on them, as it is in the CHIPS bill, which cleared a major Senate hurdle today

The anti-choice lobby doesn’t want them to learn the full range of reproductive care, including abortion.

What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.

A three-year odyssey for the formerly unionized employees could be nearing an end.

The Lindbergh 100 project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-30-19-0454-19. On December 14, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed in Mexico City after a 27-hour flight from Washington, DC—the first-ever nonstop flight between the capitals. The latest record-breaking flight for the young pilot marked the beginning of his Pan …

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