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A Florissant restaurant that serves Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai cuisine will close.

"It can be frustrating for council members when a department director does not always have the answer to the questions on the spot," Sam Page's spokesman in said a statement.

Film and TV award season means increased attention to diversity of talent in front of and behind the lens. Critiques about lack of diversity in media production apply to St. Louis, where Black people are the largest non-white population – yet less than 2% of staff in local commercial video production houses. Kyle Montgomery and Quinsonta Boyd of Continuity, a nonprofit that helps more St. Louis creatives from marginalized communities prepare for and start careers in media, share ways they make getting a foot in the door possible.

Hello Citizen allows users to stay abreast of hundreds of different issues in local government through the power of artificial intelligence.

Two people have been arrested in connection with Monday's triple shooting in Oakville that left two people dead and a third person injured. A third suspect remains hospitalized and is expected to be arrested once they're discharged.

Homicides detectives are investigating after a woman was shot in the head Friday evening in the city's Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.

Police responded shortly before 9 p.m. to the intersection of Louisiana and Gasconade.

A couple weeks ago, we released the 2024 edition of our Sky Is Rising report about the state of the entertainment industries. Last week, Mike and I joined Corbin Barthold on Techfreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast for a discussion about the report and, more broadly, the state of culture in the internet era and the conversations […]

ALTON - Alton Alderwoman Rosetta Brown is speaking out strongly against gun violence. The recent shooting of a 13-year-old in the city sparked Rosetta to provide her comments. The female victim in the weekend shooting remained in critical condition as of Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. A community candlelight prayer vigil is planned for the girl and her family and any others who have experienced gun violence at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, on Highland Avenue across from Hampton Gardens. Alton alderwoman Brown and Missy Johnson, a concerned citizen, have together come up with the idea for the prayer vigil. Brown said the recent shooting of a child in Alton is simply devastating and uncalled for. "How cowardly is such an act," she said in her comments. "We must let the thugs, uninvited guests and those who just don't belong on our streets know that this type of action will not be tolerated in our community. Just a block away from the shooting in a prominent church in our community prayers

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Here's when this year's Super Bowl Halftime Show performer will be making a stop in St. Louis.

Why I am running for Mayor of Maplewood as a write-in candidate By Barry Greenberg I am too committed to the Maplewood community to have it move in the direction it is going: a place where City Council believes that institutional knowledge is a liability, whether it be as elected officials, board and commission appointments […]

Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat and a former Missouri state representative, has launched a run for a Missouri U.S. Congress seat that represents the City of St. Louis.

We’re just over a month into 2024, and it’s already proving to be a stellar year in terms of new beauty products. These are the best new beauty products of 2024 in the skin care, hair care and makeup categories.

St. Louis this year is set to see its lowest level of convention activity, as measured by hotel room nights booked, since the pandemic-affected 2021. But progress is expected to come in 2025.

Targeted plants are Japanese honeysuckle, the Callery pear, Burning bush, Climbing euonymus and Sericea lespedeza.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today met with Illinois State Police (ISP) Director Brendan Kelly and Illinois Drug Enforcement Officers Association (IDEOA) board members. Durbin and the group discussed the importance of continued federal funding for initiatives related to the intersection of drugs, guns, and human trafficking, including funding for the Byrne-JAG federal grant program, which supports state and local drug enforcement and public safety efforts. During their meeting, Durbin thanked the law enforcement leaders for their service. “Our Illinois State Police and local law enforcement officers are on the front lines combatting the opioid epidemic, and it’s imperative they have the resources they need to keep our communities safe,” Durbin said. “I have long supported increased Byrne-JAG funding because it provides critical support to law enforcement and public safety efforts,

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ALTON - The Hayner Public Library District will display a letter written by Abraham Lincoln 180 years and one day after he signed it. On Feb. 17, 2024, Hayner’s Genealogy & Local History Library will welcome community members from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to look at the letter and other artifacts and learn about Lincoln’s connection to Alton. The day will also include a lecture by historian Tom Emery from 10–11 a.m. Hayner Library Director Mary Cordes explained that the event will welcome people to the library while sharing a piece of Lincoln history with community members. “That’s the whole goal of that Saturday, is to let people see something that truly belongs to all of us because it belongs to the library and the library belongs to everyone,” she explained. “We wanted to make sure people could come and see that and then at the same time, it’s kind of like, ‘Well, we already have people here looking at this letter, so maybe

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The facility will hold around 100 of the team's employees in a move that relocates them from Clayton to Downtown West.