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The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute. The left-leaning think tank, based in Washington, D.C., used 2023 federal and nonprofit data to compare the monthly cost of infant child care to […]

There’s been a ferry across the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, for more than 200 years, but that may not be true for much longer.

R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe was back on stage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy Saturday, when the duo brought their tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction to Brooklyn…

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In Presence of what; Absence of whom, St. Louis-based, Indian-born interdisciplinary artist Sukanya Mani presents her most intimate side by using clusters of undulating paper and fabric forms to retell […]

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The company doesn't have a timeline for when the project might break ground, a spokesman said

On Sunday Mahmoud Khalil’s wife was unable to find the protester at the New Jersey facility he was allegedly detained in. ICE’s system now says he is in Louisiana.

District 2 is investigating a robbery that happened on March 9 in the 4100 block of Connecticut.

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District 5 is investigating a robbery that happened at approximately 5:45 a.m. on March 9 in the 4000 block of St. Louis Avenue.

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WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.

State laws attempting to make it cheaper and easier to repair your own tech continue to gain steam. With the recent introduction of a new “right to repair” law in Wisconsin, U.S. PIRG notes that all 50 U.S. states have now at least introduced such bills: “This is more than a legislative landmark—it’s a tipping […]

Missouri took control of the St. Louis police department just before the start of the Civil War, a gambit by state leaders to prevent the city from rising up against their conspiracy to align the state with the Confederacy. The arrangement persisted until 2012, when 64% of Missouri voters approved an initiative petition returning control of the department to local leaders. This week, the legislature is poised to reverse that vote, seize back control of the department and put it again in the hands…

Top party officials from all 14 wards in the city gathered on Saturday morning for an open roll call vote to determine which candidates they would endorse in the upcoming April 8 election. In an "unprecedented" move, the city of St. Louis Democratic Central Committee officially endorsed the challenger running against an incumbent mayor. “It's just time for a change,” Vice Chairwoman Lucinda Frazier said. “Twenty-eight committee people came together and we voted overwhelmingly for Cara Spencer.” Frazier,…

St. Louis was ranked as the fifth worst city to live in that triggers migraines due to lifestyle and environmental factors, according to a report by Migraine Again.

Missouri has 440 people in city or county jails awaiting transfer to the Department of Mental Health. But there are no beds.