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A new drive-thru Covid-19 testing site will open Monday in north St. Louis County. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page made the announcement during a Friday news conference. The site, located at the North County Recreation Complex at 2577 Redman Ave., will increase the county's testing capacity by 1,000 tests per week. The county is currently averaging 2,000 tests per week, Page said. Beginning Monday, Jan. 10, the site will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tests are by appointment…

Things are changing quickly as cases of COVID-19 rise across the St. Louis area. Just in the past few days, the St. Louis area saw a “staggering rise” in COVID-19 cases, we broke our previous hospitalization record and elective surgeries were canceled at Barnes Jewish Hospital.

And now COVID-19 is shutting down our beloved local institutions, too.

The Saint Louis Art Museum (1 Fine Arts Drive, 314-721-0072) just announced that it will be closing today at 5 p.m. and it doesn’t expect to open again until next month.

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Edgar Winter has organized a star-studded tribute album to his late older brother, blues-rock guitar great Johnny Winter, that features contributions from an impressive list of musicians who knew or…

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Bon Jovi will be there for its fans later this year.  The rockers unveiled plans for a 15-stop tour that will span across the U.S. starting in the spring. Called the…

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About 75 firefighters combined efforts in the bitter cold to fight the blaze at the old Stratford Inn on South Highway Drive.

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"There are real problems that maybe we can't get at right way, this ain't one of them," said Soulcial Kitchen owner John Michel.

Missouri set pandemic peaks for COVID-19 hospitalizations and daily net new admissions this week. The Department of Health and Senior Services reported there were 2,933 inpatients, a number that grew an average of 91 per day over the previous seven days. The previous peaks were 2,862 inpatients on Dec. 22, 2020, before vaccines were widely […]

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During the Great Depression, St. Louis hosted one of the most acclaimed little magazines in our nation's history: The Anvil.

Since 1995, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM)’s flagship teen education program, New Art in the Neighborhood (NAN), has exposed St. Louis and Illinois-area high school students to training, teaching, and development opportunities from veteran artists around the world.

While New York is weighing the possibility of a ban, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill in 2021 to ban such bans.

CLAYTON (AP) — The rapid spread of COVID-19 has infected more than 100 detainees at one of Missouri’s largest county jails. St. Louis County officials said Thursday that 110 of …

"That's really, I think, more of the scary piece is that this is just the people that we know," Dr. Alex Garza said.

"He’s like a bull. He’s ready to go out and work."

Yuma Territorial Prison is a relic of another time. Or is it?

Hospital officials say they’re running out of options as the number of sick patients and health care workers soars.