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Groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance have consistently released studies showing that telecom giants like AT&T, despite billions in subsidies and tax breaks, routinely avoid upgrading minority and low income neighborhoods to fiber. Not only that, the group has documented how users in those neighborhoods even struggle to have their existing (older and slower) DSL lines repaired. Regional telecom […]

Food technology firm Benson Hill Inc. (NYSE: BHIL) said Tuesday it continues to pursue strategic alternatives for its operations, saying that discussions involved in that process could potentially take the firm private.

Affton High School students regularly visit the residents of a senior community across the street in the high school’s old building.

The party fell short in 2020, so it has to collect 10,000 signatures to appear on the 2024 ballot in Missouri.

The United Auto Workers on Monday reached a tentative contract agreement with General Motors on day 46 of the strike. The announcement follows previous UAW tentative pacts with the other Detroit Three automakers, Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis, which were announced on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively. The union went on strike on Sept.15. “Once again, […]

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“By the end of the season we’ll have more than $3.5 million injected into small businesses, just in restaurants alone,” St. Louis City SC’s Chief Experience Officer Matt Sebek said.

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Awaken your body and bask in the morning sunlight! This gentle yoga practice is designed to energize and align your body and mind through movement and breath. Bring your own […]

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The St. Louis County Department of Public Health says Old Town Donuts, a popular shop in Florissant, was reinspected Monday and OK'd to reopen following last week's roach infestation.

A tractor trailer parked right outside 'Savers' thrift store on Lincoln Trail caught fire just about an hour ago.

CANEY, Kansas — It’s hardly a question of whether the water will run out for one town on the Kansas-Oklahoma border. It’s a matter of when. The stubborn drought that has hung over southeast Kansas for close to two years has brought Caney, a town of less than 2,000 people, within weeks of reaching the […]

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Trick-or-treaters will be out Tuesday night in full force despite the cold weather.

Justin Christopher Vance, 18, is accused of fatally shooting a man in the back Thursday in the 2200 block of Yale Avenue.

As Care STL reaches record-high intake, doubling its capacity limit, staffing and supply shortages are part of the reason employees and volunteers are urging community members to foster and adopt dogs.

Trick-or-treaters probably don’t know or care, but the price of Halloween candy is no joke! The U.S. Department of Labor says the price of candy is up 13% from last year.

Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to complete a college-level course in criminal justice. It had been many years since Yalda had taken any college classes. And at age 38, […]

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The Rolling Stones have reached a new milestone on the Billboard chart.  With the band’s latest album, Hackney Diamonds, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200 this week, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers are now…

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Warmed-over arguments claim that the old have it too good at the expense of the young. But the real division in America isn’t generation—it’s class.

A Clinton-era hydrogen company, Plug Power, fights to embed its business model in the tax code.

Can't make it to Kansas City for this weekend's playoff match? Catch St. Louis CITY SC in action at one of these local bars and restaurants.