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New members of the Missouri State Board of Education discovered their powers to direct schools are more limited than they expected during a retreat last week. The board spent two days talking about the powers it has — and those it does not — to impact a public education system they’d like to tweak. “People […]

Austen Mary Fields has a cancer that strikes fewer than 1 in 3 million people. Her family has gone to clinics in Mexico for help. They're waiting for results.

With the Trump administration openly destroying whatever is left of U.S. federal corporate oversight, regulatory independence, and consumer protection standards, Verizon sees an opportunity. It’s asking the Trump FCC to roll back longstanding phone unlocking requirements, something consumer groups say will drag America back to the dark ages of cell phone enshittification. Longtime Techdirt readers probably […]

Patients fear the clinic’s closure will end their access to the latest research, clinical trials for new treatments, and specialists with expertise in treating Long COVID symptoms.

Missouri is on track to launch legal sports betting by December 1, and the Missouri Gaming Commission is accepting online feedback on sports betting regulations until July 16.

Columnist Bill McClellan writes: Aren’t you being a touch greedy, old people?

Too many people who qualify for food stamps in Missouri can't get them. The problem could get worse soon.

Drink makers say they're targeting customers who don't want the calories, health effects or potential hangovers from drinking alcohol — but still want something special to drink socially.

Two people were killed in a single-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 3 in Cahokia Heights late Sunday night, with the Illinois State Police investigating the cause of the crash and whether it was related to a police chase.

When St. Louis Alderman Shane Cohn filed legislation last year to regulate intoxicating hemp products, he didn’t hear much about it from local residents or leaders of the fast-growing industry.  “I did not get one call, email, etc., when I introduced this last session,” Cohn said, a Democrat who represents a southern portion of St. […]

Global clashes and trade wars hammered Midwestern states’ agricultural economies early this year, while a continuing boom in Southeastern states’ housing and tech jobs kept their economies humming along. Some Southeastern states were seeing a strong agricultural economy because of still-rising poultry and egg prices, though small row-crop farmers there were still caught in the […]

In this toxic political environment it may seem like we, the people of the state of Missouri and the United States, do not have the power to control the policies that determine what the “Show Me” state and the “Land of the Free” become.  We do. But only if we are willing to take a […]

Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.

Climatologists are working on how to account for climate change when we think about droughts. Today’s normal climate might not be the same as yesterday’s.

ST. LOUIS - Low clouds and some fog Monday morning in the wake of Sunday’s rain and storms. Visibility should improve after 7 a.m. Otherwise, Monday is expected to be warm and muggy, with temperatures reaching the upper 80s. Some afternoon showers may pop up south of I-70. Warm and muggy overnight, with wake-up temperatures [...]