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Missouri Congressman Jason Smith is hoping to inch his colleagues toward future bipartisan collaboration with a bill that increases the child tax credit and provides incentives for business research and development and low-income housing. The Salem Republican joined forces with Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden to put forward the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. While Smith noted in an interview with St. Louis Public Radio that neither side of the political spectrum is completely happy with the bill, the agreement could provide some guidance for federal lawmakers struggling to come up with legislation around immigration or aid to Ukraine or Israel.

The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23 million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount. While it didn’t get much hype, that’s a big deal in a country where broadband affordability is a massive obstacle due to muted competition. But those 23 million Americans are poised to soon […]

All 737 Max 9 jets with the "door plug" feature have been grounded since the Alaska Airlines incident, causing thousands of flight cancelations.

St. Louis' population decline is often talked about in the context of the city's population peaking shortly after World War II and then dropping steadily in the seven decades since. But Saint Louis University professor and demographer Ness Sándoval says that to only focus on the city is to miss the bigger issue bedeviling St. Louis, and that is people leaving the region altogether — specifically, Black families.

EDWARDSVILLE - St. Louis favorite Spoonful Desserts has opened a second location in Edwardsville. Located in the same building as Poke Munch at 1063 IL-157 in Edwardsville, the Korean dessert café specializes in bingsu, bubble tea, coffee and taiyaki. Owner Monica Lee explained that the café aims to please everyone and give back to the community. “Spoonful is a Korean dessert café that welcomes anyone and everyone,” she said. “Our values are customer service, cleanliness and quality, and a big thing we strive to do is make the environment welcoming so that we take the intimidation factor out. The number of times you’ve walked into an Asian restaurant or even just a foreign food restaurant and you had no idea what to order and you kind of just made a fool of yourself because you just didn’t know, we tried to take out that intimidation factor and just kind of ‘translate’ what these desserts are.” Lee explained

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Across a variety of fields and areas, these individuals are taking novel approaches to their work.

Across a variety of fields and areas, these individuals are taking novel approaches to their work.

Republican Jason Smith wants to move colleagues toward future bipartisan collaboration with a bill that increases the child tax credit. It also provides incentives for business development and low-income housing.

As temperatures start to rise, drivers will have to deal with getting salt off their cars. Crews put down salt to tackle the hazardous driving conditions that winter weather can impose, but it can damage your car.

The United States Air Force Band of Mid-America will perform a series of patriotic concerts in southern and central Illinois.

The Clayton School District backs out of the controversial purchase of the Caleres property.

He's on death row but dozens of Missouri Department of Corrections staff call him a model inmate. They are urging Governor Mike Parson to grant a stay of execution.

The chair of the St. Louis County Council is working on a bill that would give the council control over "all public safety functions" in the county, including in municipalities.

The Missouri House Republicans are moving forward with a proposal that would make it more difficult to change the state constitution. Right now, constitutional changes go on the ballot with enough petition signatures and go into effect with a simple majority vote.

St. Louis prosecutors have turned over their first batch of evidence in their case against the co-owner of an LGBTQ bar charged with assault last month after a police SUV smashed into his business. That evidence, however, doesn't include any video, body cam or otherwise.

On and off since 2014, Danielle Hopkins has rented from Dara Daugherty, the St. Louis slumlord who was hit last week with a lawsuit from the city accusing her of operating “illegal rooming houses” in 39 condemned houses across south city.  Most recently, Hopkins spent roughly five years at a house on South 38th Street in Dutchtown, a house that the city says has been condemned since November 2018.