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Nancy VanCleve’s landline is her lifeline. She knows it’s old-fashioned, but she has no interest in a cell phone.

One of the most frustrating aspects in the ongoing conversation around the preservation of older video games, also known as cultural output, is the collision of IP rights and some publishers’ unwillingness to both continue to support and make available these older games and their refusal to release those same games into the public domain […]

The political battle over the future of EVs is playing out in parts of the St. Louis area and beyond. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to cut EV funding and end what he calls the “EV mandate” on day one of his upcoming presidency. 

Four apartment units on Crosswinds Drive in Arnold have been red-tagged, meaning they’re “unfit for human occupancy.” The renters must move out, but two of them told FOX 2 off camera they’re not going because they have nowhere else to go.

A 20-unit townhouse development is planned for the city’s Soulard neighborhood.

The St. Louis Preservation Board Monday rejected Washington University Medical Center’s request to demolish a vacant, former nursing home in the Central West End.

An Illinois State Police crime scene unit was looking for evidence Monday evening in the parking lot of a vacant building where a Hardee’s once operated in Cahokia Heights. 

WOOD RIVER - Plans have changed for a dog park in downtown Wood River after the City Council on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, rejected the only bid it received for the project. According to the resolution, the city only received one bid for the project from RCS Construction, Inc. of East Alton. The total estimated cost of their proposal was $370,545, which “far exceeded the amount budgeted by city for the project.” As previously reported on Riverbender.com , the City Council voted in October to pursue the creation of a dog park and pocket park at 217-223 E. Ferguson Ave. City Manager Steve Palen said at the time Economic Development funds had been budgeted based on estimates of $100,000 for the dog park and $150,000 for the pocket park. As of Monday’s meeting, his estimate for both parks remained over $100,000 based on the bid from RCS. Palen said he still intends to build the dog park and pocket park using City of Wood River crews - except for wor

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Cherokee Street venue The Fortune Teller Bar is closing at the end of the year.

A trust tied to the Hoffmann Family of Companies has again upped its stake in St. Louis Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher. Biden’s shift in policy added an uncertain, new factor to the conflict on the eve of [...]

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts was defeated by Alfred Montgomery in the August Democratic primary. Betts has been the Sheriff since 2017.

An iconic pair of Hollywood memorabilia are back together in St. Louis for a short time. The dress and coat worn by actress Judy Garland in the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” are part of a display inside the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park.