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The Missouri Senate on Monday afternoon began debate on a plan that would expand a school voucher program statewide.

Two people were killed in a shooting on a Metro bus Monday afternoon in Berkeley.

Boxes of French fries covered one rural Missouri road after a tractor-trailer rolled over Sunday morning.

The rooftop terrace bar and lounge of Live! by Loews in downtown St. Louis, the Bullock (799 Clark Avenue), is opening Friday, April 5 — just in time for patio season — and opening day for the Cardinals.  Just across from Busch Stadium and Ballpark Village, the Bullock looks to add to the St. Louis sporting experience this spring and summer with the rollout of Executive Chef Steven Hall’s new menu.

Last December, a wealthy St. Louis couple was fined $215,200 for applying herbicide to a neighbor's trees near their vacation home in Maine. The herbicide was brought in from Missouri and not intended for shoreline use. Now traces of the herbicide have reportedly been found at a public beach in the area — and officials in Maine are calling for charges to be brought against Arthur Bond III and his wife Amelia, according to the Penobscot Bay Pilot.

Five of Missouri's most problematic invasive plants will no longer be legally sold in Missouri if HB 2412 passes.

Every year since 2002, with just one exception, the Artica festival has set up on a patch of land just north of Laclede's Landing and transformed the largely abandoned riverfront acreage into a wonderland for one weekend and one weekend only. The explosion of creativity has been described as St. Louis' Burning Man — made all the more amazing because it's long taken place on land owned by a local bank. As Lohr Barkley, president of Artica's board of directors, explains it, each year Artica has gone to the site's owner, and each year they've gotten permission.

A single thread out of place can distort the illusion of perfect embroidery or reduce the perception of the quality of a smooth hand of fabric. Its free movement against […]

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Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Upon Further Reflection, a collection of oil and cold wax paintings by Mark […]

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Art Saint Louis presents "Varsity Art 28," our 28th annual exhibition highlighting works by 39 undergrad and grad level student artists representing 21 STL regional/area colleges and universities. This year's […]

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The St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) began rolling out flashy, new promotional videos last month promoting the use of tax incentives. The videos — produced by public relations firm Candid Marketing, which SLDC has paid $30k per month since 2021 — were released against the backdrop of a report from national experts Good Job First that St. Louis area students are losing out on hundreds of millions of tax dollars due to local governments’ use of tax incentives.  SLDC’s videos boast that incentivized projects between 2017 and 2022 created new jobs and will lead to approximately $53 million of new property tax revenue over 10 years.

We’ve documented in detail how the whole AT&T–>Time Warner–>Warner Brothers Discovery merger process has been a pointless mess, resulting in no limits of layoffs and damage to the underlying brands. What was supposed to be a gambit by these companies to dominate streaming TV, wound up being a very expensive act of seppuku by over-compensated executives clearly out of […]

Graybar, one of the region's largest private companies, has reached a contract deal with employees in St. Louis who are represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 688.

For Missourians with felony convictions, disenfranchisement laws that restrict voting rights due to a past or current felony conviction stand as a barrier to democracy. Currently, Missouri law denies voting rights to individuals during imprisonment and throughout the probation or parole period following a felony conviction. Senate Bill 1199, sponsored by Sen. Curtis Trent, and […]

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Riley Strain was last seen about 10 p.m. Friday leaving a bar in downtown Nashville. His stepfather said Monday the past few days have been "pure hell."

The earnings tax is a key revenue generator for the City of St. Louis.

Washington University has agreed to purchase the 16-acre campus, officials said Monday.