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Mandela: The Official Exhibition at the Saint Louis Science Center takes guests on a journey through the life of the iconic freedom fighter and political leader.   An immersive and

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With the help of ten truckloads of sand, The Magic House’s backyard will be transformed into a beachfront park.   Visitors can take a stroll along the boardwalk, search for

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The fire, first reported about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, kept crews battling for hours to extinguish the blaze and keep it from spreading to nearby structures.

The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the victim as 19-year-old Arie P. Van Zee.

Firefighters battled heat while fighting massive flames Wednesday night into Thursday morning at a former church in north St. Louis.  St. Liborius Church, located at 1850 Hogan St., is a historic landmark. Built in the 1800s, the vacated church was given new life a few years ago when it was transformed into a skate park, art studio and hangout for youth known as SK8 Liborius Church. St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson told KSDK at the scene that the fire began at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday…

WASHINGTON — In a summer of drought, smoke and haze, wildfires could flare up in unusual locations in the United States over the next few months — including New England and the Midwest, according to federal forecasters. “The predominant threat looks to be the Northeast, which is not normal,” said Jim Karels, the fire director […]

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Winnie-the-Pooh, R2-D2, Baseball and Kermit the Frog  – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum.   Housed in a restored 1896 building, the

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The work of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly is coming to the Missouri Botanical Garden in a stunning exhibition uniting art and nature. With thousands of pieces of blown glass forms

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Officials said construction of the improvements, which could include new medians, traffic circles and bumped-out curbs, will largely occur in 2025 and 2026.

Lee Enterprises recently cut most of its 77 newspapers to three editions each week — and also moved to have the U.S. Postal Service, rather than carriers, deliver the editions. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is an exception to both changes, says United Media Guild President Jeff Gordon. Like other bigger Lee papers in Omaha and Buffalo, the Post-Dispatch remains a daily — for now.

“I don’t want him to be another statistic,” said the mother of a 15-year-old killed in a 2018 drunk driving crash. She asked a judge to show the driver mercy.

“This is a project the neighborhood wants,” said David Tallent, president of the neighborhood association.

Officials from General Motors and local business groups gathered at the Wentzville auto plant Wednesday, to address the workforce challenges in manufacturing and how to grow here.

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.