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Mayor Tishaura Jones delivered her first State of the City address two days before the first anniversary of her historic inauguration. She discussed investment plans to transform this city into the vision she once had growing up with roots in north St. Louis. She feels the city's best days are still yet to come. "Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, loving community like I did," Jones said. Jones delivered the address on Tuesday at Harris-Stowe State University, tackling the City's issues,…

Engineers at St. Louis University and members of the St. Louis Blues Blind Hockey Club are working on improving the puck for visually impaired players. It’s a deceptively complicated engineering problem.

A St. Louis-based real estate investment firm is expanding to Colorado, its first market outside the Midwest.

Mission Taco Joint, Hi-Pointe Drive-In, Hot Box Cookies, 2nd Shift Brewing, Steve’s Hot Dogs, and more are all getting in on the cannabis-inspired food holiday.

ST. LOUIS - Wednesday is 4/20, also known as Weed Day, and a couple of local businesses have specials in honor of the annual event. Mission Taco Joint is teaming up with the dispensary Proper Cannabis. They will hand out a limited number of GMO tacos. The restaurant's popular portobello mushroom taco has been renamed [...]

Scott McDowell, founder and owner of the Olney, Illinois–based business, comes up with new styles of birdhouses every spring.

Missouri would pay its full share of public school transportation costs for the first time in more than 20 years under a budget proposal approved Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The committee added $214 million for school transportation to the $114 million included in the record-setting $46.5 billion budget plan approved by the Missouri […]

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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis area sees a cool and wet start Wednesday morning. Showers and storms are expected throughout the day. It will also be windy and cool with highs in the upper-50s. Expect scattered showers and storms Thursday with high temperatures in the 70s. Some showers are expected early Friday, but it [...]

The show features the score from the Jurassic World films combined with projection and practical scenery to make the audience feel like they are on Isla Nublar.

Lawmakers in Congress have been promising to tackle rising drug prices for years, but so far there’s been little action. Now, Congress may be running out of time as bigger issues like the war in Ukraine and inflation crowd out long-standing issues with more immediate concerns. The outrageous price of medicines has made prescription drug […]

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As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing.

Premiums are ballooning in states like Florida and Louisiana — and adaptation measures won't bring costs back down.

Two men are dead after what police are calling a "probable murder/suicide" late Tuesday night in the parking lot of a Wildwood bar.

Wait times to connect to the grid are going up, and more projects are dropping out in the process.

Earlier this month, The Zombies launched a 2022 North American tour, marking the first time the British Invasion legends have been out on the road since 2019. Zombies keyboardist and…

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A long-awaited bipartisan bill on domestic manufacturing could run aground because of House-Senate differences over its trade chapter—reflecting intense corporate lobbying.

The school is being devoured from the inside by its own administrators.

New well count rises as governor appoints oil lobbyist to top role.

Two new lawsuits were filed Tuesday on behalf of the victims of the deadly Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville last December.

David Welz of St. Charles, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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