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Job growth increases in St. Louis, tying city at third highest rate nationwide

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The original article comes from Spectrum News on October 5, 2024 Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ties St. Louis at No. 3 in the country for its job growth rate. Indianapolis is the other. Between August 2023 and August 2024, nonfarm employment increased in 24 metros while remaining mostly unchanged in 27 others, according to the recently […]

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Kelle Sutton

National Great Rivers Museum Closed For Special Event

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EAST ALTON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Rivers Project Office is announcing a single-day closure of its National Great Rivers Museum, Wednesday Oct. 16, 2024 to accommodate a special career fair event for surrounding high school students. The Museum will re-open for normal operations Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. For more information, please contact the National Great Rivers Museum at 618-462-6979.

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IDNR Announces State And Federal Sites To Be Open For 2024 Youth Waterfowl Hunting Seasons

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SPRINGFIELD – Numerous Illinois state parks, state fish and wildlife areas, state conservation areas, and state recreation areas will be open to youth waterfowl hunting during the 2024 North Zone, Central Zone, South Central Zone, and South Zone youth waterfowl hunts. Federal sites that fall under the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ (IDNR) waterfowl administrative rule that will be open for the youth hunts also are listed below. At most sites, regulations that apply during the regular waterfowl hunting season apply during the youth hunt. Hunters should check for changes to site-specific regulations and procedures. During the youth hunt, the bag limits are the same as during regular seasons. Per federal regulations, youth waterfowl hunters aged 17 or younger may hunt ducks, geese, coots, and mergansers if they are accompanied by an adult at least 18 years old. The accompanying adult cannot hunt these species but may participate in other open season hunts

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BBQ warehouse to burn for days after catching fire, officials say

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Firefighters will be battling a fire for days after it started burning at a Blues Hog BBQ Sauce storage facility in New Haven in Franklin County, officials told KSDK on Thursday. The New Haven-Berger Fire Protection District deputy chief said the facility in the 500 block of Orchard Street caught fire at around 5 a.m. Thursday. Crews reportedly got the call and were there within five minutes. The district was soon joined by four other fire departments to extinguish the blaze. No injuries were…
Hunter Bassler and Holden Kurwicki

Are the Northern Lights visible again Friday? It depends

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Northern Lights were visible in southern Illinois and Missouri due to an unusually strong geomagnetic storm, but the visibility has decreased significantly tonight, with a slight chance of seeing the aurora on the horizon in parts of Missouri and Illinois.
Angela Hutti

Ameren Missouri’s Rush Island coal plant to close following years-long litigation

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One of Ameren Missouri’s largest coal plants will shut down Tuesday after more than 13 years of litigation over its failure to comply with federal clean air regulations.  The St. Louis-based electric utility will retire the Rush Island Energy Center, a two-unit 1,178-megawatt coal plant on the banks of the Mississippi River in Jefferson County, […]
Allison Kite

Mazda Annoys Owners By Making Remote Start A Subscription

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One foundational belief of the “right to repair” movement is that consumers should actually own the technology they pay for. Unfortunately that’s increasingly not the case when it comes to carmakers, who are utterly insistent on not only charging people a flat retail price for a vehicle — but are also increasingly charging you additional […]
Karl Bode