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Emergency crews prepare for rising water levels in Eureka

1 month 4 weeks ago
The City of Eureka has erected new flood walls along Old Towne Eureka to protect the area and the local sewage treatment plant from anticipated flooding. Emergency crews are preparing for rising water levels on Friday night as rain moves through the region and water flows downstream from northern areas.
Patrick Clark

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

1 month 4 weeks ago
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool […]
Mike Masnick

Motorcycle Rider Dies In Collision On Friday, March 6, 2026

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY - St. Louis County Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a motorcycle and a car that killed an adult male Friday afternoon, March 6, 2026, near the intersection of Kilmory Drive and Shackelford Drive, authorities said. Officers from the St. Louis County Police Department’s North County Precinct responded at about 2:20 p.m. on March 6, 2026, to a call for service for a motor vehicle crash in the 1800 block of Kilmory Drive at Shackelford Drive, police said.

Sierra Club Sponsors Annual Seed Swap This Weekend

1 month 4 weeks ago
ALTON - The Sierra Club will host their annual Seed Swap this weekend. The Piasa Palisades chapter of the Sierra Club stays busy, but on March 7, 2026, community members can come to one of their biggest events of the year. From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at The Wedge in Alton, the organization will offer a space for gardeners to share seed packets and gardening tips. “Seed saving has been throughout cultures from the beginning of time. Before there were formal events that started really in