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Mizzou's athletics department set a revenue record during the 2023 fiscal year but stayed in the black by just one dollar. 

Spending from large federal grants and a shrinking but substantial state surplus will propel Missouri to record spending in the coming year if lawmakers adopt the $52.7 billion budget proposal from Gov. Mike Parson. Unlike last year’s budget proposal, which included nearly $900 million from general revenue to improve Interstate 70, Parson has no large proposals for using the surplus that was nearly $6.4 billion at the end of December. Instead, increases in ongoing spending, including raises for…

A Webster Groves restaurant was damaged after a morning kitchen fire. It all happened at the 'Boardwalk Cafe' just off Big Bend Boulevard.

ALTON - Alton Band Director Blake Korte has announced several students represented his high school at the recent SIUE Bi-State Concert Band Festival. Korte congratulated the students who participated. "It is quite an honor to participate as a record number of applicants (over 300) applied this year," he said. Below are selections for different categories: Cougar Honor Band Dr. Carolyn Barber, Conductor Spencer Leonard - Tenor Saxophone Keysar Butler - Baritone Saxophone Joseph Hicks - Double Bass Wesley LeBrun - Percussion Red Festival Band Ryan Lipscomb, Conductor Briana Wermke - Tenor Saxophone Quinn Halliday - Trumpet White Festival Band Eric Chrostoski, Conductor Benjamin Paris - Euphonium Madalyn Schrumpf - Euphonium Riley Voumard - Percussion

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The Missouri Botanical Garden's Charlotte Taylor has identified, described and named more plant species than any other living woman.

Pay raises also would go toward employees who work overnight shifts at prisons and mental health facilities.

You might recall that back during the net neutrality wars Netflix was a notable supporter of the concept, arguing that big ISPs shouldn’t be able to pick and choose winners and losers on their networks, or use their monopoly over broadband access to undermine competition over their networks. Then, you might recall that as Netflix […]

The FAA halted Boeing's plans to expand production of its 737 Max jets as the agency continues to investigate a Max 9 that lost a door-plug panel midflight earlier this month.

In his final address to a joint session of the Missouri General Assembly, Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday pointed to outlawing abortion, increasing infrastructure spending and appointing five statewide office holders as the legacy of his six years in office. “I’ll be leaving here with my head held high,” Parson told lawmakers during his annual State of the State address. Parson can’t seek re-election because of term limits. After years in the legislature, and 18 months as lieutenant governor,…

Calling all bikers, drivers, walkers and riders! Yes, you, shimmying across Grand with that slice of cashew pepperoni from Pizza Head in your hand, desperately trying to avoid being mowed down by a motorist.

Legal recreational marijuana is grown at 51 cultivation facilities approved by the state. Another eight are waiting for Missouri to sign off on their ability to compete.

Illegal dumping in St. Louis City will be taken up by another committee.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen Committee will consider three different bills Thursday focusing on guns in the city of St. Louis.

Lewis and Clark Community College is honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week with a commemoration event.

Top officials at Fontbonne University in Clayton and Webster University resigned.

Sometimes to appreciate the beauty of St. Louis on a winter's day you need just need some perspective. Take last Friday. It was bitterly cold — the day's high was 17 degrees — and on the ground, it was easy enough to feel depressed.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page says he plans to push for a property tax increase in order to pay for a new county headquarters and office space.

In July 2013, I rolled up to the then-Delmar Boulevard office of the Riverfront Times, seven months pregnant and fresh off a plane from Washington, D.C., to begin a freelance gig as the paper's restaurant critic. People always ask how I got this job — it's probably the most common question I get, even before where to go to eat — and I still sometimes wonder that myself.