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When the first Starbucks opened here, many St. Louisans thought paying more than 50 cents for a cup of coffee was ridiculous.

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, Callery pears invade and degrade a variety of the state's natural habitats.

Construction should begin this spring on a rehab of 186 housing units in Wellston, which were slated for demolition until the county blocked the plan.

A bond hearing for Iron County sheriff, charged in a plot to help a friend with a parental kidnapping, spiraled into a 2½-hour event where the prosecutor hinted at an even bigger scandal brewing.

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Amazing Art from Pieces and Pixels, features Pysanky by Katherine Alexander, Digital Art by Matt Bryan, Mosaics by Brenda Fra-ser, Assemblage by Nell

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Opening Day is approaching, and there are many new changes at Busch Stadium this season.

If you recall, the Trump FCC under Ajit Pai spent several years stripping away popular media consolidation limits established over decades with bipartisan approval. The push was ironically to directly help aid Sinclair broadcasting’s steady consolidation of local broadcast news, which resulted in a homogenized soup of well-funded propaganda and the erosion of real, local […]

As a proposal for an additional sales tax on marijuana heads to St. Louis County voters, more changes in marijuana usage could be coming to the county, including where you can and cannot smoke it. During a Wednesday morning news conference, County Executive Sam Page announced the St. Louis County Council is working to update its clean air code to address marijuana smoke. The code currently regulates where people can smoke tobacco. The restrictions on marijuana smoke are aimed at limiting secondhand…

Officers found the victim with a gunshot wound to his neck near the intersection of Bacon and North Market streets.

Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in many states have sent women traveling, in search of procedures and pills they can no longer legally get at home. A volunteer pilot organization is helping.

One person died after being shot about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of Kingshighway.

Police are at the scene of a shooting that has left a man dead in St. Louis City.

On one end of the Missouri Capitol, House Republicans seem poised to divvy up the money Gov. Mike Parson wants to use widening portions of Interstate 70 on a bunch of smaller projects. Across the rotunda in the Senate, Appropriations Chairman Lincoln Hough is looking for ways to pour more money into the project to […]

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Yesterday afternoon, the City of St. Louis sent out a warning that starting tonight at 7 p.m. a flood watch will be in effect for more than 24 hours. The alert says that there is an expected rainfall of one to two inches. The flood watch will be in effect until 1 a.m.

A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits. The hospitals in Audrain and Callaway counties remain closed as a slew of lawsuits and state and federal investigations grind forward. In […]

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Like a lot of Missourians, Shelley Swoyer of Jefferson City was surprised to see that the state had switched from its long-used method of selecting presidential primary candidates to a caucus system last June. “I’m just a voter. I encourage people to vote, I register people to vote. We live in a democracy that extols […]

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The tech-forward salad bars offer technology-enabled hood shields, automatic dispensers and a mounting system to ensure utensil handles don't touch the food.

St. Louis County needs your help with their bus driver shortages.

Another group of men and women avoid criminal conviction by going through St. Louis County's Treatment Court.

Granted, there is no better oyster-eating background track than the sound of crashing waves. Though the lapping waters of the Mississippi can't quite cut it, there is still hope when you get a hankering for chilled bivalves on the halfshell.