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Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced a new, low-cost loan program to help bridge the gap between college savings and financial aid on Monday.

According to an Illinois State news release, the declarations are due to the tornadoes and drought that occurred during the 2023 Illinois growing season.

There’s also a new push to connect young people in the City of St. Louis with jobs and educational opportunities.

The late David Crosby had assembled a new band and was preparing for a new show when he unexpectedly passed away in January — but now that band is going to honor him…

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The audit will be a comprehensive review of the office's policies and finances and is part of a broader probe of the entire city that began in 2018.

Bioscience business groups plan to use a $2 million grant to connect Missourians with childcare, transportation and online training to help them access jobs at life science companies.

A tax subsidy issued years ago for a stalled redevelopment of downtown St. Louis' Railway Exchange Building could complicate plans by any new owner to bring life to the massive, vacant structure, according to public records and a longtime area developer.

Two recent, major legal rulings in federal court involving the First Amendment have Missouri connections. Greg Magarian, a law professor and First Amendment scholar at Washington University, breaks down the implications of cases involving whether a business owner can discriminate against gay customers, and whether the government is allowed to ask social media companies to remove content spreading misinformation.

The McKelvey Ridge development would consist of up to 60 affordable housing units to be built on a 5.8-acre property at 12204 McKelvey Road in Maryland Heights.

SPRINGFIELD – If you’re looking to strike it rich - the Illinois Lottery has a few life-changing jackpots up for grabs tonight and tomorrow, with a combined prize total of $1.174 million. The Powerball jackpot for tonight’s drawing has ballooned to an eye-watering $675 million - the ninth largest in the game’s history, while the Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to a mouth-watering $480 million for tomorrow night’s drawing - the second largest jackpot of 2023. Also for tonight’s draw, the Lotto jackpot is now at a whopping $19.1 million - the largest Lotto jackpot of the year and the second largest in nearly five years. On Saturday, a lucky Illinois Lottery player became a newly-minted millionaire after matching all five Powerball numbers to win $1 million. The winning ticket was purchased at Fas Mart, located at 15766 Manchester Rd. in South Beloit, IL. The winning numbers in the Saturday, July 8 draw were: 7-23-24-32-43. So far this year,

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Country music icon and philanthropist Dolly Parton has partnered with the state of Illinois to send free books to all young children in the state.

The Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program expands on the $33 billion Rebuild Illinois infrastructure program signed into law in 2019.

Here we go again. It was only a month ago that Karl Bode wrote about Disney’s absolutely and totally cool process of removing a bunch of content from its Disney Plus streaming platform not because the content sucks and nobody liked it, but because it gets to play accounting tricks as to its assets in […]

Until now, adults over the age of 21 were legally permitted to have their phones in their hands while driving in Missouri. Missouri is one of only two states in the nation without a law specifically prohibiting texting and driving for all ages, the other state being Montana. That is about to change in August 2023, however, with the passing of Senate Bill 398, or "Siddens Bening Hands-Free law."

St. Charles County’s population has jumped about 35% since 2000, to 410,000 people, and overseeing that growth has been St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann. He recently announced he would not seek a sixth term. In this excerpt from STLPR’s Politically Speaking podcast, Ehlmann discusses his career and his concerns about how the county’s growth is tied to the perception among some that St. Louis is a dangerous place.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker joined the state's Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to announce the highest-ever hotel revenue Monday.