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Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. She will face Republican nominee Don Tracy in the November general election. The retirement of Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin triggered a competitive campaign. It drew as…

The council voted 4-3 to oppose St. Louis reentry into the county or other consolidation ideas now or in the foreseeable future.

Voters in all 17 of Illinois U.S. House districts went to the polls to vote in primary elections on Tuesday.

The St. Louis bicycle nonprofit found a spacious building. And outside, there was room to ride: dedicated bike lanes and nearby parks.

We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary. Namely, a media where all the major outlets are owned by rich autocratic allies, who spew propaganda 24/7 while the government strangles real, independent journalism […]

ST. LOUIS - Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday morning regarding illegal slot machines in businesses across the state. The briefing will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Springfield. The issue centers on video lottery terminals, which operate similarly to casino slot machines but are located in gas stations [...]

As you’ve probably figured out… if you are listening to my show on KSHE right now, you have probably figured out I’m not in the KSHE studios.Right now, I’m gearing…

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WASHINGTON — Sure, Sen. Thom Tillis has become the most visible, outspoken Republican insider critic of the second Trump administration. But don’t mistake Tillis for a maverick. The North Carolina senator is being who he’s long been, the sort of GOP stalwart known as an establishment Republican. A Republican who’s conservative on fiscal issues, usually […]

CREVE COEUR — Mercy Hospital St. Louis is bursting at the seams and it plans to increase capacity through a multiphase renovation project, the hospital’s new leader said in a recent interview.

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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Dan Pate contemplates the social impacts of St. Louis's urban planning traditions, examining how current decisions will influence our lives and how they echo past choices.

A former North Kansas City and Lee's Summit pastor was suspended last week after it was discovered she worked for and managed the private island of late-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for nearly a year.

(The Center Square) – Illinois voters will have a rematch in the race for governor after Darren Bailey beat out three other candidates in Tuesday evening’s Republican primary election.

The voting overhaul measure that the U.S. Senate began debating Tuesday would cause major headaches for underfunded state and local election officials, without meaningfully stopping fraud, according to a collection of voting rights advocates and elections officers. The so-called SAVE America Act, which President Donald Trump is relentlessly pushing, would create chaos for state and […]

The tax, known as a use tax, would be equal to the 3.5% county sales tax.

By the time you read this, those swept up in ICE raids may already be filling some of the 1,000 beds at a troubled for-profit prison in Leavenworth now turned federal detention facility. The last hurdle for owner CoreCivic to reopen its site was a special use permit from the city of Leavenworth and, after […]

The County Council's passage of a resolution opposing any “merger, re-entry, consolidation, or structural reunification of the City of St. Louis with St. Louis County now or in the foreseeable future” came the same day County Executive Sam Page announced a push for public input on the widely discussed plan. Plus, St. Louis singer, songwriter and dancer Jordan Ward has become a rising R&B star in recent years. He took time away from his world tour to sit down with STLPR's Chad Davis to talk about his introspective new album.