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A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on funding related […]

A red octagon can stop a two-ton car with no physical force at all. The paint doesn’t block the road. The metal doesn’t slow the wheels. Yet most drivers hit the brakes without thinking. That’s the strange power of symbols: they do real work in the world, even though they’re made of nothing more than shared meaning. Symbols are everywhere—logos, flags, emojis, wedding rings, religious objects, even the way you knock on a door. They help us communicate fast, show

For some, sensibly standing on the solid ground is just not enough.

The most significant global event linked to April 20 is the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, United States. Two students carried out a planned attack at their school, killing 13 people and then themselves, and injuring many others. At the time, it shocked communities far beyond the U.S. because it showed how quickly violence could spread in a familiar, everyday place. It still matters today because it changed how schools think about safety, how many countries talk about youth

The High Low Gallery presents a new exhibition, Night Comfort, featuring works by St. Louis artist Jeremy Rabus, opening Friday, March 27 and running through Sunday, June 14. Night Comfort explores nostalgia through […]

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Emerson, the Clayton-based technology and automation company, said it also plans to help in coming weeks.

UPDATE: The woman was located safe, officials said. ST. LOUIS COUNTY , Mo. - An Endangered Person Advisory was issued early Monday morning after a woman was reported missing in north St. Louis County. According to the St. Louis County Police Department, she was reported missing Sunday after an incident in Jennings.

Late last month we noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas (which means pretty much all of them). At the time we also noted how this was less of a ban and more of a shakedown, with router manufacturers required to beg the Trump FCC […]

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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Gardner, who resigned as St. Louis' top prosecutor in 2023, is working with a California university's psychiatry and behavioral sciences department.

A child was injured after being struck by a pickup truck late Sunday night in south St. Louis County.

The shooting was just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the 10900 block of New Halls Ferry Road. The food truck was in a parking lot there.

The City of Hazelwood is selling ballfields to a cricket league that aims to turn them into a new hub for the growing sport.

A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further through the legislature this year than at any point in at least a decade. But opposition from Senate leaders makes it unlikely to pass. Missouri and Indiana are the only states that allow […]

HUTCHINSON — Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their improbable return to Earth from a seemingly jinxed lunar mission, and ponder the fragility and strength of humanity. Recently I did just that, and whispered thanks to the universe for bringing back another […]

WASHINGTON — Emanuel Cleaver isn’t a stranger to a standard reelection run. Someone with his level of time spent in office might even call it a speed-walk. He’s been elected 11 times to the U.S. House of Representatives and two times as mayor of Kansas City — the first African American to hold that post. […]