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The St. Louis Blues announce a new team captain Tuesday.

Due to bridge maintenance, the Lewis ramp to westbound I-44 will close at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and reopen by 5 a.m. the following mornings.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Awaken your body and bask in the morning sunlight! This gentle yoga practice is designed to energize and align your body and mind through movement and breath. Bring your own […]

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Volunteers are needed to help set up 1,000 flags along the funeral procession route for a fallen Marine from Belleville.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s annual free concert in Forest Park is the thinking St. Louisan’s event of late summer — one of the few things everyone can agree is worth braving that horrible Hampton Avenue I-64 exit to attend. And this year, we have the perfect way to avoid that snarl of a roundabout and get your Strauss and Sousa too.

Native Americans whose ancestors' remains were unearthed in Illinois could soon receive a proper reburial.

SSM Health and the St. Louis Area Food Bank are fighting food insecurity once again with another drive-thru food giveaway.

All Fields Food grocery stores are officially closed, and theirs employees let go.

The St. Louis City Election Board is commemorating National Voter Registration Day by unveiling a new voting system Tuesday.  

Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day.

An Endangered Silver Advisory has been canceled for a 70-year-old Monday morning.

Nothing kills a good roller rink buzz like some bad music. One minute you're happy and dancing while you’re rolling along to the beat and then: What’s this song? Matchbox 20?

The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation is responding to questions about the effectiveness of the software it uses to track information about marijuana products, including the results of state-mandated testing.  In a guidance document issued on Monday, the agency addressed questions regarding testing regulations that cannabis businesses rely on to ensure product is safe — […]

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States engaged in decades of underfunding of land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities, leading to a more than $12 billion disparity with comparable white institutions, leaders of the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday. “Unacceptable funding inequities have forced many of our nation’s distinguished Historically Black Colleges and Universities […]

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What would your perfect job look like? You might choose to be your own boss, with space to creatively express yourself and feel fulfilled by your work. Maybe you would want day-to-day novelty, an experience that never grows stale. You might even seek a job that would allow you to pick up and move around […]

The post The challenges of being a teacher in Missouri don’t outweigh the massive benefits appeared first on Missouri Independent.

The Illinois Arts Council Agency has awarded three grants totaling $26,900 to the Jackie Joyner Foundation, a center of community enrichment and youth development in the Metro East. The funds will serve to enhance and expand the foundation's visual arts,…

by Lisa Song and Maya Miller

The plastics industry has long pushed for recycling as a way to clean up its image. But large-scale, effective plastic recycling remains a myth. In 2021, the United Nations Environment Program reported there were 75 million to 199 million tons of plastic waste in the oceans. Plastic continues to drive climate change and threaten human health, biodiversity and the environment — sometimes in ways the public can’t even see.

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