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From River Bender:  Doug Weber, vice president of Holland Construction Services, is the recipient of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s 2023 Construction Leadership Institute (CLI) Alumni Leadership Award. The CLI Alumni Leadership Award recognizes an outstanding graduate who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and service to the St. Louis area building community. Doug Weber, vice president of […]

From The Business Journal: It’s been three years since Covid-19 lockdowns and the rise of remote work dealt a crippling blow to mass transit systems across the nation. Ridership still hasn’t recovered, and experts say mass transit needs to divorce itself from the nine-to-five downtown commute and focus on a new future or risk a long-term […]

From Leader Publications: The project to expand I-55 to three lanes in both directions between Pevely and Festus took another small step forward last week. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has narrowed down its list of potential contractors for the project to two teams, one of which will be contracted later this year to build […]

Members of a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday previewed what they would push for in bipartisan rail safety legislation likely to progress through Congress in the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment. Democrats and Republicans on the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hinted they wanted to strengthen requirements about reporting hazardous cargo, […]

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The website for the small north county municipality of Bellerive Acres lists the address for its administrative offices as being within the city hall for nearby Pasadena Hills, where Bellerive Acres has rented space since July 2021. A recent visit to that address, however, revealed that no Bellerive Acres’ employees work there.

Happening this weekend, is a unique art at the Vacancy Gallery at the City Foundry.

When the first Starbucks opened here, many St. Louisans thought paying more than 50 cents for a cup of coffee was ridiculous.

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, Callery pears invade and degrade a variety of the state's natural habitats.

Construction should begin this spring on a rehab of 186 housing units in Wellston, which were slated for demolition until the county blocked the plan.

A bond hearing for Iron County sheriff, charged in a plot to help a friend with a parental kidnapping, spiraled into a 2½-hour event where the prosecutor hinted at an even bigger scandal brewing.

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Amazing Art from Pieces and Pixels, features Pysanky by Katherine Alexander, Digital Art by Matt Bryan, Mosaics by Brenda Fra-ser, Assemblage by Nell

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Opening Day is approaching, and there are many new changes at Busch Stadium this season.

If you recall, the Trump FCC under Ajit Pai spent several years stripping away popular media consolidation limits established over decades with bipartisan approval. The push was ironically to directly help aid Sinclair broadcasting’s steady consolidation of local broadcast news, which resulted in a homogenized soup of well-funded propaganda and the erosion of real, local […]

As a proposal for an additional sales tax on marijuana heads to St. Louis County voters, more changes in marijuana usage could be coming to the county, including where you can and cannot smoke it. During a Wednesday morning news conference, County Executive Sam Page announced the St. Louis County Council is working to update its clean air code to address marijuana smoke. The code currently regulates where people can smoke tobacco. The restrictions on marijuana smoke are aimed at limiting secondhand…

Officers found the victim with a gunshot wound to his neck near the intersection of Bacon and North Market streets.

Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in many states have sent women traveling, in search of procedures and pills they can no longer legally get at home. A volunteer pilot organization is helping.