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David Dayen discusses his reporting on the Salton Sea.

Gary Willis has lived in the 21st Ward since the age of nine. He and his family have owned and operated New Carrie’s Corner Market at Athlone and Rosalee Avenues in the ward since 1992.

Missouri’s largest operating holiday model train displays will be in the Earl C. Lindburg Automobile Center at the National Museum of Transportation this holiday season.   On Nov. 25, opening

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This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to

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Retail and food service sales were down 7.9% from October to November: This is a sizeable decline, though it's not wildly out of the ordinary. Generally speaking, retail sales have been pretty flat during 2022 with the trendline showing a steady but small decrease. That said, down is worse than up. November's decline is probably ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Retail and food service sales for November"

For the first time in its 214-year history, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has a chief from outside its ranks. Robert Tracy is leaving a similar job in Wilmington, Delaware to become the top officer in St. Louis.

A Kansas City-area mother said a TikTok trend and peer pressure convinced her son to take "happy pills," nearly killing him.

WEBB CITY, Mo. — It was a chilly night for Southwest Missouri's last Christmas parade of the holiday season. However, the cold didn't stop people from attending the Webb City Christmas parade tonight (12/14). 52 entries, including Santa, made their way North along Main Street in downtown Webb City. One of the parade floats was [...]

Techirt has long discussed how in the modern era, the things you buy aren’t actually the things you buy. And the things you own aren’t actually the things you own. Things you thought you owned can be downgraded, bricked, or killed off entirely without much notice. That game console with backward compatibility? It no longer has backward compatibility. That smart home […]

From Compact Equipment: The Associated General Contractors of America recently released a series of video public service ads that feature real industry professionals who have felt the impact of suffering with mental health issues while trying to maintain the normalcy of day-to-day life and work. These videos are part of the association’s ongoing efforts to combat high suicide rates and […]

From ReJournal:  Tarlton Corp. broke ground Dec. 7 on the SSM Health Outpatient Center in O’Fallon, Missouri, after being selected as construction manager for the two-story 66,000-square-foot destination ambulatory center and outpatient facility in southern Greater St. Charles County. The center will serve as the premier source for the needs of a growing community – one […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A developer has filed plans to turn a struggling Maryland Heights hotel into apartments, city documents show. New York-based Churchwick Partners told the city of Maryland Heights that its 106-room Sonesta ES Hotel, at 1855 Craigshire Drive, is losing out to competing hotels and that the tight labor market is making it […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  As construction continues on the $130 million project to convert the historic Butler Brothers building into more than 300 apartments, the massive project in Downtown West has a name and a target opening date. Memphis-based developer Development Services Group could finish construction on the first phase of transforming the 735,000-square-foot building […]

From New York Intelligencer:  For months, the world’s largest economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse because America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick. Or so the behavior of major U.S. rail companies seems to suggest. Since last winter, railroad unions and the managers of America’s seven dominant freight-rail carriers have been […]

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner has waited more than three years for the chance to argue the innocence of Lamar Johnson, who was convicted of murder in 1995.

Midwest BankCentre is donating its south St. Louis branch to a nonprofit aimed at boosting small business.

From Construction Dive:  Dive Brief: Nonresidential construction input prices declined 0.8% in November compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis, due in part to improvement in supply chains that were battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the monthly decline, nonresidential construction input prices remain 11.5% higher than a year […]

Forbes’ rankings, published Wednesday, have the Blues listed at No. 19 in valuations of the National Hockey League’s 32 teams.