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Welcome to the Riverfront Times’ Five Days of Resolutions. Start living right.


Twenty-one days.…

Welcome to the Riverfront Times’ Five Days of Resolutions. Start living right.


For years, Kristan Nickels and other members of the Zombie Squad have prepared for a possible apocalypse through the tropes of their favorite horror movies, approaching real-life disaster preparedness as if they were also facing hordes of the shambling undead.…

It was never a question.  As the St. Louis region began to close schools and issue stay-home orders due to the pandemic, Rebeccah Bennett knew that the most vulnerable — the Black community, the unhoused and immigrant populations — would bear the brunt of this deadly virus.  And Bennett, founder of the consulting group Emerging […]

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For the state commission drawing new Missouri House districts, the work began in acrimony but seems likely to end in harmony. For the commission in charge of new Senate maps, the opposite is true. When the House Independent Bipartisan Citizens Commission met for the first time in August, the 20 members spent hours arguing, locked […]

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Welcome to the Riverfront Times’ Five Days of Resolutions. Start living right.


Living in a house with more than one other person, it’s easy for the trash to pile up.…

Missouri’s election year legislative session begins with many of the bills filed raising partisan disputes. Proposed limits on COVID-19 restrictions are a major focus. Well more than two dozen bills were pre-filed to restrict COVID-19 mandates. Some would block mandating a test, mask or proof of vaccination. One measure even would make any employer, including […]

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It’s the last day of twenty twenty-one, so here’s a look back at the year in St. Louis. This isn’t a complete list, just some highlights — not in chronological order. Many things from 2020 continued into 2021. The most obvious is the COVID-19 pandemic.  Hospitals were often operating beyond ...

The drop in violence brings the city back near pre-pandemic levels when 194 people were murdered.

Paddy O's and BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups are following the City's mask mandate and making sure people are bringing in the new year safely.

Surge in COVID cases prompts two-week campus closure.

Krista Peyton was picked to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Virginia Lay to circuit judge last month.

Visitors will be limited to one per patient in all clinics and hospitals, with a few exceptions, Mercy officials said Thursday.

The message said rising cases and hospitalizations were part of the decision. The final factor, the message said, was the limited availability of testing

The school board had voted 5-2 on Dec. 13 to drop its mask mandate, but rising coronavirus rates prompted the reversal, the district said.

Colder temperatures and a mix of rain and snow are possible in the area, forecasters say. That also could mean travel trouble on the roads.