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The Great Forest Park Balloon Race is Saturday, but the festivities start Friday night with the annual Balloon Glow in Forest Park.

St. Louis City has completed the expansion of the 'Jefferson Spaces Tiny Homes Project.'

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen returns from their summer break Friday.

Ameren Missouri customers get a break on their electric bills.

The city of St. Charles goes to court against Ameren.

Last week, prosecutors in St. Louis dropped murder charges against a 52-year-old woman who for almost two years stood accused of killing a woman who rented a room from her. During the time the charges were hanging over her head, Consandra Perry spent more than a year in the troubled City Justice Center and, in the words of her attorney, "I don't think she has anything left."

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore's office charged more than twice as many criminal cases during his first three months in office as his predecessor did during the same period last year, according to a Post-Dispatch analysis of court records.

The United Auto Workers are officially on strike Friday morning against the big three automakers and workers at the GM plant in Wentzville were among the first across the country to hit the picket line.

Missouri is part of an emerging extreme heat belt that could deliver more scorching days within 30 years. So far, there’s no unified plan to make dwellings safe in the dangerously high temperatures.

Our dining editor opines, along with SLM's dining team and a handful of local chefs and restaurateurs.

St.LouisCIO has announced the finalists for its 2023 St. Louis ORBIE Awards. The St. Louis ORBIE Awards honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. With support from St. Louis Business Journal, St.LouisCIO will honor the CIOs who are driving innovation and transforming St. Louis’ leading organizations. The 2023 St. Louis ORBIE Awards event is scheduled for Dec. 8 at The Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta Hotel. The finalists were named in the following…

On the cover of Paul Niehaus IV's debut album, If I Stay Too Long, Niehaus sits in a rocking chair picking a resonator guitar on the porch of a wooden shack near the famous crossroads where, according to folklore, blues legend Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. With his tinted black-frame glasses and black mutton chops, mustache and soul patch, Niehaus resembles a young Leon Redbone.

Missouri students and teachers returned to the classroom this month facing a sobering reality. Missouri students are now worse at reading and math than the average American student. At a time when our students need and deserve a world-class education, we are actually falling further behind. According to the nation’s report card, NAEP, as of […]

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The Rolling Stones just confirmed Paul McCartney appears on their new album, Hackney Diamonds, and fans may be surprised by what they hear. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, frontman Mick Jagger says they had a hard…

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The plant in Wentzville is one of three targeted by the union.

DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit’s three automakers are willing to pay. Members of the United Auto Workers union began picketing at a General Motors assembly plant in [...]

Construction on a two-mile stretch of road in St. Clair County has caused huge travel headaches for more than a year.

The ‘Stand Up Strike’ is intended to keep the Big Three automakers off-balance.

Saudi Arabia’s soccer revolution risks perpetrating a similar labor crisis as seen in Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

A new documentary, ‘The Five Demands,’ explores the 1969 student campus takeover that reshaped college education in New York.