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A warning from MoDOT: as cooler temperatures move into the area and nights become longer, there may be an increase in wild animals on the roadways.

Drivers can expect lane closures in the Lindbergh Tunnel starting Thursday night.

Many companies offer discounts or freebies for teachers all year, while other deals are today only.

On October 5, 1973 — 50 years ago — Elton John released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Featuring future classics "Candle in the Wind," "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," "Bennie and the Jets" and…

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A fiscal operations support manager at the St. Louis City Justice Center says he was fired by the jail's director after writing two letters of concern about the jail operations to the city's Division of Civilian Oversight.  Opeoluwa Oke worked at the city's Comptroller's Office and the City Emergency Management Agency before taking the job at the City Justice Center in June.

Two groups have separate ideas on an abortion access measure that could go on the Missouri ballot in next year's election cycle.

Clearly keen to not miss another opportunity to show how they’re slowly turning into Comcast, Netflix this week indicated they’d be pushing yet another price hike in the wake of the recently successful writers’ strike: “Netflix is planning to increase the cost of its streaming service yet again, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. […]

Newly-installed charcoal filtration system at water treatment plant will safely remove contaminants, city says.

The circus is in town for families and friends to enjoy and there's a special deal for parents and children.

The city of St. Charles will turn on three of its offline water wells at the Elm Point Wellfield next week, a city spokeswoman said. Leslie Knight, strategic communications manager for the city, said the wells CW-6, CW-7 and CW-8 will be turned back on next Wednesday, Oct. 10. Knight said the resumption comes after the city installed a new carbon filtration system to process the water before it is pumped to residents. The city will shut down the only well currently operating, CW-10, for maintenance,…

Parents shopping on a budget may want to check out a big event happening in Collinsville this weekend.

A city board has added another delay to a developer's plan to turn a vacant public school into a 62-apartment building.

The city joins leaders St. Louis County trying to implement a new state law designed to cut taxes for older Missourians. St. Charles County already approved the tax freeze.

The Hazelwood School District will hold its first board of education community forum Thursday night.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said she wants to give area senior citizens a break by freezing their property taxes. "It's once in a lifetime for our seniors to freeze their taxes for many, many years to come," Jones said. The Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 190 earlier this year. It gives each county and St. Louis the choice to enact a property tax freeze for seniors. St. Charles County leaders have already said yes, but St. Louis County has said no. Jones hosted a roundtable with senior…

Emergency crews are at the scene of a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 155 Thursday morning.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency are holding the meeting to answer questions about increased radium levels in the city's drinking water.