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Wak’a Garden

1 week 3 days ago

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

Sen. Schmitt to discuss F-47s, military aviation future at Boeing

1 week 3 days ago
ST. LOUIS - Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt is set to discuss the future of military aviation during a news conference Monday at Boeing. Schmitt is scheduled to speak after Boeing was selected earlier this year to build the F-47. The plane is part of the Next Generation Air Dominance program and is expected to replace [...]
Nick Gladney

Man struck, killed in hit-and-run crash on I-270 Sunday night

1 week 3 days ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Police are investigating after a man was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash Sunday night on Interstate 270. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the crash occurred at 11 p.m. on northbound I-270 at Highway 370. It involved an unknown silver Volvo vehicle. [...]
Nick Gladney

Missouri budget earmarks face scrutiny as Gov. Mike Kehoe’s deadline nears

1 week 3 days ago
Gov. Mike Kehoe’s decisions on the $50.7 billion Missouri budget for the coming year are due by Tuesday. The budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday arrived on Kehoe’s desk in May with a deficit of more than $2 billion between general revenue and appropriations, covered by the last big draw on the general […]
Rudi Keller

What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

1 week 3 days ago
There’s a television ad making the rounds for Amendment 5, and it would like you to be angry at a hum. “That hum is the sound of big tech making money from online gambling, from porn,” a narrator says over footage of server racks. Data centers, the ad goes on, are “money machines making millions […]
Jason Hancock

Older Missourians who are homeless for the first time point to weaknesses in support systems

1 week 3 days ago
When outreach workers with CoMo Mobile Aid surveyed people experiencing homelessness in Columbia, Missouri, earlier this year, one finding stood out — many were older Missourians experiencing homelessness for the first time. The survey, conducted by CoMo Mobile Aid and a research team at the University of Missouri, found that 59% of those surveyed were […]
Meg Cunningham

Big heat, humidity dominates as we roll towards the holiday weekend

1 week 3 days ago
ST. LOUIS - Mother Nature has cranked up the heat after cutting down on the rain and storms. It will be a very hot and humid week. While high temperatures won’t reach records, they will be in the upper 90s through at least Thursday. Dew points in the mid-70s range mean high humidity, and that [...]
Angela Hutti

1 dead, 1 injured in overnight shooting in north St. Louis

1 week 3 days ago
ST. LOUIS - One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Monday in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting occurred shortly before 2 a.m. in the 4700 block of Wren Avenue in the city's Walnut Park East neighborhood. This is a developing story; FOX [...]
Nick Gladney