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A male western lowland gorilla arrived at Saint Louis Zoo last week to join the zoo's bachelor program, with the long-term goal of propagating the species.

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A St. Louis urban renewal board voted Tuesday to acquire the former headquarters of a company in North City currently owned by Dismas House of St. Louis, in hopes to convert it into a workforce development hub that could support a $55 million advanced manufacturing center planned nearby. After a […]

Both bills passed the St. Louis County Council 4-3. It requires five votes to override a veto.

From Mid Rivers News Magazine:  The St. Peters Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a bill to authorize Phase 2 of the Route 370 Interchange Ramp Project at Salt River Road at its meeting on May 11. The bill gives the city permission to enter into a supplemental agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission’s […]

Construction work currently surrounds the hotel as part of the ongoing expansion of the downtown convention center.

Tool frontman Maynard James Kennan is letting his KISS fandom fly, showing off his collection of posters and memorabilia on social media. “Everyone has their coping mechanisms. As a child growing up in 70's Ohio,…

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Summer Fun STL youth camp locations will span the city while school is out to keep young people engaged in safe and supportive environments.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  As Boeing prepares to wind down one of its legacy St. Louis-made fighter jet lines, the company is expanding in research and development with a new, 47,500-square-foot facility here that will focus on next-generation military aircraft. The new site will be part of “Phantom Works,” a tight-lipped Boeing unit that carries […]

ALTON - Madison County Coroner Steve Nonn confirmed on Tuesday morning an autopsy has been completed on a male subject discovered Friday evening in Wood River Creek at the overpass with East Broadway in Alton. Nonn said there was nothing that revealed anything criminal in nature about the death. Nonn said he couldn’t release at this time the cause of death but said it was a 33-year-old male who was found. Alton Police and Alton Fire responded to the scene, assisted by East Alton Police. The coroner’s office was then called to the scene.

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There's a little bit of St. Louis heading to the NBA Finals, but maybe not quite in the way most would expect.

From West News Magazine:  The question that keeps getting asked – What is happening with Chesterfield Mall? – has finally been answered. At the Chesterfield Planning Commission meeting on May 22, representatives from The Staenberg Group (TSG) spoke about the redevelopment proposed for the 96-acre site located on the south side of Interstate 64, east […]

Roger Waters has commented on the controversy surrounding his concert in Berlin earlier this month. As previously reported, Waters faced backlash for using images of Anne Frank and a pig with a Star of David…

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ALTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today visited Alton Memorial Hospital, part of BJC Healthcare, to meet with its President, David Braasch, and health care providers. During their meeting, Durbin spoke about his new Rural Health Workforce Roadmap , an initiative to help address the shortage of health care workers in rural Illinois and organize efforts among hospitals, health centers, graduate schools, and community colleges to tackle the root causes of these shortages. Durbin acknowledged BJC Healthcare’s efforts to implement some of the key tenants in Durbin’s Roadmap, including paying tuition to recruit new nurses, and serving as a training site for Southern Illinois University’s family medicine residency program. Durbin, author of the American Cures Act , also touched on his efforts to ensure that medical research remains a priority within the federal government’s budget as Republican lawmakers threaten to slash the funding

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News of Chick-fil-A having vice president of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) has some conservative groups calling for a boycott.

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois State Fair Box Office is opening for in-person grandstand ticket purchases Thursday, June 1. Regular box office hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday, August 5th from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tickets are also available to purchase online using www.ticketmaster.com . In addition to concert tickets, fairgoers will be able to purchase tickets at the Box Office to ISF Bares, Broncs and Bulls rodeo, the ISF Championship Demolition Derby and the ITPA Truck & Tractor Pulls presented by the Illinois Soybean Association “We are excited to be partnering with the Illinois Department of Agriculture to help host this event,” said Illinois Soybean Vice Chair Ron Kindred. “The Illinois State Fair is a wonderful event where guests are able to combine fun and education all in one place. We are thrilled to be providing the opportunity for people to enjoy the tractor pull where many tractors will be using biodiesel blends made with soybean oil from

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Over the last few months, we’ve written a bunch about DoNotPay, the company run by Joshua Browder, claiming that it is the “world’s first robot lawyer” — that is until people take him to court for various things, at which point he says the term is just meant to be for marketing, and not to […]

by Topher Sanders, Dan Schwartz and Ruth Baron

ProPublica has been reporting on railroad safety for more than a year. We recently published investigations on the safety issues posed by longer trains and blocked railroad crossings. Now, we’re investigating the challenges that confront railroad employees who are injured on the job, railroaders who report a safety concern and the pressure on managers to reduce reports of unsafe conditions and injury numbers. We’ve heard from many railroad employees that being injured or reporting a safety concern can be fraught with consequences. We’re taking those concerns seriously and working on several stories that will investigate these themes.

To do this right, we need to hear from as many people who work in the system as possible. This means railroaders in all positions, managers and people familiar with the Federal Railroad Administration.

Location: near Macklind and Lindenwood avenues This is: a giant box of wires, supposedly owned by AT&T