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Property values are likely to be higher this year, according to the county assessor.

When you’ve spent a summer or two (or every summer of your life) in St. Louis, you know there are certain things you just have to do. Do you really want to go a whole summer without Ted Drewes? Did summer even happen if you didn’t spend an evening in Forest Park for one reason or another (movie, Shakespeare, the Muny)?

No matter your theatrical preference, St. Louis is your spot for arts entertainment all summer long. There's Circus Flora returning to the Big Top in Grand Center with its humane, family friendly one-ring circus; the Midnight Company continuing its exploration of narrative cabaret shows at the Blue Strawberry; Tesseract Theatre Company hosting a new play festival and a production ofKinky Boots featuring Tiélere Cheatem, and New Jewish Theatre closing out its season with Gloria: A Life featuring Kristen De Broux as the iconic feminist Gloria Steinem.

A St. Louis CITY SC ticket is the hottest one in town right now, and while there are lots of reasons to love the team (homegrown young guns Caden Glover and Miguel Perez playing in the majors for the first time, the history-setting five-win start, the intense style of play), goalkeeper Roman Bürki is a perennial fan favorite. Defensively, Bürki is considered a "sweeper-keeper" because he comes flying out of the box to intercept long balls from opposing teams.

It's summer, and it's time to take the biannual winery trip to Augusta or Hermann. For the uninitiated, Missouri wines aren't great, and Missouri summers are even worse (dress to sweat), but sitting outside listening to live music as the sun sets over the vineyards can't be beat.

Sure, there's a lot to do in St. Louis during the summer. But there's even more beyond our own backyard, and we don't recommend going to rural Missouri lightly. Get in your car this summer and explore somewhere new.

There are plenty of articles online — many with clickbait-y headlines — that will tell you all about the "haunted hike" that takes you to the lost towns of Hamburg, Toonerville and Howell, in nearby Weldon Springs, Missouri, typically accompanied by images of a graffitied tunnel, a rusted fire hydrant or an old chimney. The internet is working overtime to make this hike seem exciting, so I laced up my boots and headed out on the 10.5 mile Lost Valley Loop Trail.

Summer in St. Louis is all about drinking an overpriced Bud Light and sweating it out while listening to some great music. And we have no shortage of great music here.

It's an undisputed fact that St. Louis summers are hot, humid and sticky as all else. But unlike some other towns where residents escape the heat and stay indoors, St. Louis is full of people who embrace the heat.

Missouri could soon have a new interstate highway.

In 50 mL, Taya Tomasello captures notes from her childhood.

Vassilev, who has featured in a number of roles this season, was eager and ready to join the attack in Saturday’s win over Sporting Kansas City.

A bear is struck and killed by a car not far from a black bear sighting 14 hours prior. Festus police confirmed that a black bear was struck and killed on Interstate-55 north. It happened less than a mile and a half from their department and about a half a mile from a bear sighting around 24 hours ago.

America may have hit “peak gasoline,” but the fossil fuel’s decline is still too slow to meet climate goals.

The countdown to the weekend starts on Hump Day at these drink and dining destinations.

One week after Kim Gardner resigned as St. Louis circuit attorney, the Missouri governor and Missouri attorney general’s offices are getting a firsthand look at all the work ahead for her newly-named replacement. In all, the transition team, which includes the governor’s general counsel, Evan Rodriguez, acting as interim circuit attorney and several assistant attorneys general working with him, has discovered more than 4,800 warrant applications police have sent to an email system Gardner created…

By now we’ve talked at length about the hot mess that has been the Biden administration’s attempt to properly staff the FCC. After an inexplicable 8 month delay, the Biden administration picked popular consumer advocate Gigi Sohn for the spot. But a relentless, often homophobic, multi-year smear campaign by telecom/media giants and their GOP allies […]