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The north St. Louis location would be Fields Foods' seventh store.

ST. LOUIS -- The Heat Advisory continues for today into Friday for top temperatures that may reach over 100 degrees in Missouri. However, scattered storms in Illinois will cut down on the heat in areas east of St. Louis. Several clusters of strong to severe storms are forecast to drop for Iowa into central and [...]

The National Weather Service issued an air-quality alert and heat advisory for the St. Louis area Thursday into Friday.

“It wasn’t a lack of business, more along the lines of bad timing for us personally,” the bakery's closing announcement read.

A judge has batted down the city of St. Louis’ attempt to claw back the $300,000 a jury awarded a former police sergeant who was racially discriminated against by her supervisors. Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Sergeant Heather Taylor was awarded the judgment in March after a jury agreed that she had been retaliated against after speaking to the media about how the department hadn't paid the bill for its ShotSpotter technology.

A catastrophic fire took down St. Louis’ famed Sk8Liborius (1850 Hogan Street) overnight, marking a devastating loss for the tight-knit local skateboard community. The previously abandoned north city church (originally the Roman Catholic parish of St. Liborius) was adopted by St. Louis’ skate community years ago, and they fixed it up and turned it into an spectacular indoor skate park.

This week the Biden administration basically re-announced the $42.5 billion in broadband funding that will soon start flowing to the states to shore up U.S. broadband access. Despite press reports that this funding is somehow new, it came as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Not too surprisingly, numerous Republicans that voted […]

Off with Their Heads w/ Single Mothers, Pleasure Center, Still 8 p.m. Thursday, June 29. Red Flag, 3040 Locust Street.

After the flood of 2019, communities along the Mississippi River started pouring more resources into projects to restore wetlands habitat. The initiatives in the St. Louis region help with seasonal and flash flooding, which have become more frequent.

The most seismic shock in World Cup soccer history took place on June 29, 1950, when an England team that was expected to contend for the title was beaten by the U.S.

The United States got goals from three different players in less than four minutes to build a 3-0 lead in the first 16 minutes of the game.

St. Louis aldermen tackle a couple of key issues Thursday.

The funeral for fallen firefighter Lloyd Ruediger takes place Thursday.

Thursday 06/29 Sea Bugs, Thai Style If you love a good seafood boil as typically prepared (seafood, potatoes, corn, cajun flavoring) and have a palate open to adventure, we have just the event for you.

If summer in St. Louis had a taste, it would be one part Maull's, another part Busch, a sprinkle of a Friar Tuck's turkey leg and a generous spoonful of frozen custard. Perhaps our fair city's greatest culinary contribution, this frosty treat hits the spot on those days so hot and humid you have to peel off your jorts when you come in from grilling the pork steaks.

St. Louis City firefighters battle a huge fire overnight at an old north city Catholic Church that was turned into an indoor skate park. The fire was so intense that the embers spread to a building two blocks away

A Heat Advisory is in effect for Thursday and Friday as temperatures climb to near 100 in Missouri. Heat index values could be 105 to 110. Scattered storms in Illinois will cut down the heat a bit in areas east of St. Louis 

Local education leaders around Missouri say the formula that determines state funding of public schools hasn’t kept up with inflation and other pressures districts face in 2023. At least 35 school boards have passed resolutions asking the State Board of Education to convene a blue ribbon commission to study the formula, which each year adds […]

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