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Veatch replaces Desireé Don Reed-Francois, who abruptly left last month for the athletic director job at Arizona.

Prairie Farms Dairy is getting into a fast-growing product category.

The 17-year-old told police he was exiting his car when an unknown suspect fired shots at him.

Missouri hired longtime college administrator Laird Veatch to be its athletic director on Tuesday, bringing him back to campus 14 years after he departed for a series of other positions that culminated with five years spent as the AD at Memphis.

Asia is ready to hit the road again. The band, led by keyboardist and original member Geoff Downes, just announced dates for The Heat of the Moment tour. Downes says the idea for…

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Legislation key to keeping a landfill from being built near pricey suburban homes just outside Kansas City is headed to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk.  The Missouri House gave the legislation final approval by a 121-25 vote on Tuesday. It passed the Senate 24-7 last week. With Parson’s signature, it would prohibit a landfill from being […]

The post Bill to stop Kansas City landfill clears Missouri House, heads to governor appeared first on Missouri Independent.

From St. Louis Public Radio:  Restauranteur William Porter spent years thinking about how to transform two vacant Cherokee Street lots into a recreational public space for the neighborhood. In 2015, he started heading across the street from his restaurant, Master Pieza, to Cherokee Street and Nebraska Avenue to clean the lots. When the first basketball […]

From Leader Publications:  Work is scheduled to begin April 22 on a project to replace a bridge over a tributary of the Joachim Creek on McGehan Road, which connects Hwy. E and Hardin Road south of De Soto. Jefferson County Public Works Director Jason Jonas said the portion of McGehan Road that includes the bridge […]

Authorities on Tuesday charged a Sikeston man with driving more than twice the speed limit and causing a fatal crash in north St. Louis County in October.

From REjournals:  The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) celebrated its 150th Anniversary in March, commemorating the milestone at its new headquarters in downtown St. Louis’ historic Security Building. The $1.5-million adaptive reuse project was designed by St. Louis-based Lawrence Group Architects with construction management firm Integrate Construction Partners. Located at 319 N. Fourth […]

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Six years after it was announced, five years after city approval of an area plan, four years after initial groundbreaking, three years after scores of trees were removed along Route DD and after weathering the COVID-19 pandemic with its economic shocks, the Streets of Caledonia mixed-use development is clearly taking shape. […]

From Call Newspapers:  Two representatives from Missouri American Water – Brian Eisenloeffel, senior director of operations, and Timothy Southards, engineering manager – gave a presentation on the projects going on in the area at the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting on March 12, including an update on the water tower project Southards began by […]

From St. Louis Public Radio:  Some construction companies in Missouri and Kansas are illegally misclassifying employees to cut down on payroll costs and avoid millions of dollars of state and federal income taxes, according to a pair of studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The research, which received funding from the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  While a potential MetroLink expansion in St. Louis stirs controversy, work has been quietly underway for more than a year on building a long-sought Metro East extension of the light rail line. Illinois state funds are paying the entire cost of the $98 million, 5.2-mile connection from MetroLink’s current easternmost outpost […]

From KSDK:  Powell Hall sits in the heart of the Grand Arts District right across the street from the Fox Theatre in Midtown St. Louis. Renovations are being made to the front entrance, lobby, box office, seats and contractors have decreased the elevation by leveling the slope on the hall’s floor. Currently, the hall has […]

A new report finds that Missouri is one of the toughest states to pass a driver's license test.

From Lincoln News:  Dreary, rainy weather couldn’t damper the enthusiasm at a ribbon cutting ceremony last week commemorating the grand opening of a Missouri Job Center office here in Troy. A collaboration between the Workforce Development Board of North Missouri, Gamm Incorporated, and the Lincoln County Missouri Economic Development Office the center, located at 260 […]

Eckert's Farm in Belleville is opening its strawberry fields for picking. Here's when you can visit and how much it'll cost you this year.

A total of $3.9 million has been allocated toward the replacement and ongoing maintenance of this system.