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The clock is ticking for the county to come up with a decision on their government center in Clayton.

The City of St. Louis held an open house for the Gravois Avenue Study Monday to unveil their plans for making improvements to traffic safety.

Some St. Louis Blues fans ran into a hailstorm on their way to Enterprise Center Monday night. Severe weather rolled through the St. Louis area before the start of the game, which the Blues need to win to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Two-headed snakes don’t live long in the wild, but in captivity, they can live for decades. Tiger-Lily the western rat snake is lucky to be in the latter category. Found in southwest Missouri in 2017, Tiger-Lily is now a species ambassador with the Missouri Department of Conservation. Naturalist Lauren Baker talks about best practices for feeding two hungry snake heads at once (Tiger and Lily share a stomach) and what she’s witnessed providing care to a snake with one body and two independent brains — and temperaments.

This year's election could result in one of the largest turnovers in Missouri Senate history since term limits took effect more than 20 years ago, causing concern for some.

Webster Groves native Karlie Kloss took the modeling world by storm in the 2010s before launching a highly successful effort to connect young women with computer coding and, more recently, helping relaunch Life Magazine. But on Monday, Kloss discussed another passion in an exclusive interview with St. Louis Public Radio: Her advocacy for abortion rights in Missouri and around the Midwest. “I'm one of four daughters. I grew up here in the Midwest. My father is a physician. The idea of reproductive care was never political in my house,” Kloss said. “It's devastating to me the reality of what is happening and how it has become so politicized. Because to me, this is a conversation that belongs between an individual and their physician and an individual and their loved ones. To me, politicians should not be involved.”

Ballwin police said a man was taken to an area hospital after being shot in the chest, and a suspect was detained.

Troy Doyle took over as Ferguson Police Chief on April 1, 2023. He's already hired more officers and even a training coordinator.

In 2008, Brian Dorsey was sentenced to death for two counts of murder. On April 9, he’ll become the first person executed by the state of Missouri in 2024 — unless Governor Mike Parson grants him clemency. Retired Missouri Supreme Court Judge Michael A. Wolff, who upheld Dorsey’s sentence in 2010, shares why he now supports Dorsey’s case for clemency and reflects on the factors that affect outcomes in death penalty cases. And Michelle Smith, founder of the Missouri Justice Coalition, talks about the movement to abolish the death penalty in Missouri.