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The task force reported records in a number of different categories as the omicron surge continues.

The developer that sold the building called it a "unicorn" because of the unique traits that helped attract a buyer.

Fifty-four children and 964 adults have been hospitalized with COVID-19 – numbers the St. Louis area has not seen before, the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reported today.

Figures are reported from the area’s four major hospitals: BJC Healthcare, St. Luke’s Hospital, Mercy and SSM Health.…

When some students in Edwardsville and Belleville schools head back to class after the winter break on Tuesday, they’ll be doing so virtually and from home. Belleville confirmed with KSDK Monday afternoon that Belleville Township High School District 201 students will move to remote learning Tuesday-Friday of this week. The plan will be reevaluated over the weekend. School district officials said they had to make the change because of too many staffing and teacher absences. Related: Vianney…

Team USA announced the women's Olympic hockey team Saturday, and there will be some familiar names for St. Louisans to follow.

"The Opposite of Chance" was published 39 years after author Margaret Hermes wrote its first chapters. She explains what took so long, how she overcame the story's complications, and how intense research allowed her to bring characters far different from herself to life.

The need for blood is on the rise, but the Red Cross is seeing fewer first-time donors — and is down to about one day’s worth of reserves. Joe Zydlo digs into what’s causing the shortfall, and how it plays into the organization’s recent response to tornadoes in Missouri and Arkansas.

The legal action stems from the termination of a House administrative staffer in 2021.

A Louisiana federal judge has put a hold on President Joe Biden’s mandate that Head Start workers be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who previously ruled against a vaccine mandate for health care workers, issued a preliminary injunction on New Year’s Day restricting the executive branch from enforcing in 24 states a mandate for […]

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The Legislature will move fast on new boundaries for Missouri's eight congressional districts.

The owner said the concept, focused on the first two meals of the day, is lacking in the immediate area. "I liken the menu to First Watch with a little splash of Courtesy Diner."

By utilizing state-of-the-art technology, Wash U researchers hope to develop a better understanding of how rivers may react to future flooding events. Geomorphologist Claire Masteller joins us to discuss her work studying bedrock river erosion.

Americans buy – and then must dispose of – about 30 million Christmas trees each year.

Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri recently named Amber Overton to the newly created post of chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer,