From St. Louis Business Journal: The Sears, Roebuck & Co. was more than a department store for north St. Louis residents. It was a place where people met their future spouse. Neighbors can recall the names of the first Black store managers. Children at St. Roch School got their uniforms there. After Sears started opening […]
From Ozark Radio News: The Missouri Department of Transportation’s road construction season is kicking into high gear. Ed Hassinger, MoDOT’s deputy director, said Missouri is prepping for one of its busiest road construction seasons in the history of the department. He said the agency has more than $3 billion of work under contract. Drivers can […]
Members of the Wentzville community put their support for veterans on display Monday. VFW Post 5327 welcomed hundreds of bikers traveling the central route of the annual Run for the Wall.
From Mid Rivers News Magazine: Major road improvement projects often take years to go from idea to design to preparation to construction. The regionally significant “I-70 bottleneck” in Wentzville at the Norfolk Southern Railroad bridge is one of those projects and is managed by the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT). After several years of discussion […]
While some criminal cases in the St. Louis justice system continue to see delays, not all are being met with the same tension and despair as in recent years.
From St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis-based developer Lux Living has sued a Kansas City developer, arguing that it breached an agreement to timely sell properties in KC’s Crossroads Arts District for an apartment project. However, an attorney for 3D Development said it already was preparing to take Lux to court, citing the St. Louis […]
From Mid Rivers News Magazine: According to the city of O’Fallon, the intersection of routes K and Route N is one of the worst performing intersections in the city. The Missouri Department of Transportation had approached O’Fallon about improving that intersection. In turn, the city started planning for the project and applied for external funds […]
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page has a week left to decide whether or not to sign an ordinance that would ban sitting, standing, running, or walking on county roads when a sidewalk is present.
For years, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has had a gang problem. And for just as many years, sheriff after elected sheriff have refused to address this problem. It’s not simply a matter of taking a hands-off approach to discipline. It’s been a matter of flat-out denial from sheriffs that deputies are forming gangs seemingly […]
From St. Louis Post Dispatch: A state agency is questioning invoices totaling more than half a million dollars submitted by a nonprofit group under contract to St. Louis County — an amount significantly larger than originally reported. The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, which conducted a review of records from about 170 […]
From STL Partnership: FOCUS ST. Louis hosted their 26th Annual What’s Right with the Region Awards on May 11, 2023. Each year, the event honors individuals, organizations and initiatives that are making a positive impact within the St. Louis region. This year, St. Louis Economic Development Partnership (STL Partnership) and Greater St. Louis Inc. accepted […]