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The new home of Major League Soccer's St. Louis CITY SC, CITYPARK stadium, will host its first match Wednesday when CITY2 hosts Bayer Leverkusen.

There are almost 25,000 vacant houses, commercial buildings and land plots in St. Louis, and about 60% are privately owned. Some nuisance properties can be a blight on communities.. STLPR reporter Chad Davis talks about how neighborhood associations have been trying to acquire them or compel owners to fix them.

Central Visual and Performing Arts High School returned to class virtually on Monday for the first time since the deadly school shooting three weeks ago.

Prosecutors charged a second man, 25-year-old John Daniel Crawford Murray, with murder in the stabbing death of Charles Dillon in Merriam.

Missouri voters approved recreational marijuana on Tuesday, but some experts advise users to pursue a medical marijuana license.

Future substitute teachers in Missouri won't need as many credit hours to get a job inside the classroom.

ALTON - Local artist Jenna Muscarella has been busy in recent days painting botanical artwork on a previous utility box in front of Bossanova Martini Lounge and Restaurant on Third Street in Alton. Muscarella was commissioned by Alton Main Street for the project. Muscarella is also an art teacher in the Wood River District. She is originally from Alton and graduated from Alton High School. "I am painting a mural on a gas utility box, hiding an eye sore," she said. "The buildings here are historic and so beautiful and instead of putting a mural on a building, we are putting it here." The artwork is done in conjunction with the foilage and plants in the flower beds. Eventually, Jenna plans to put her free magnets on the painted box. "I love painting," she said. "I do this every day because I am an art teacher. I am also a commissioned artist and painter. I have a gallery in Soulard and a studio in my basement." Jenna said she wanted a chance to put her mark on Alton in some artistic

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The local offerings will be available for soccer fans to try Wednesday during the first full-stadium preview event at CITYPARK, an international friendly between the City2 team and Bayer 04 Leverkusen of German league Bundesliga.

The nonprofit, 'Lansdowne UP', says the whole goal of the new 20-home subdivision is to build an economic revival in East St. Louis.

Two former Kansas City, Missouri, police officers plead guilty to assaulting Breona Hill, a Black transgender woman, during an arrest in 2019.

This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on November 4, 2022.  The U.S. Department of Transportation announced more than $703 million in Port Infrastructure Development Program grants to fund 41 projects in 22 states and one territory October 28. PIDP grants are designed to improve port facilities. Recipients include a $6.1 million dock expansion in Columbus, Miss., on the Tennessee-Tombigbee […]

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A once promising light in Wildwood's dining scene has gone dark. Botanica (2490 Taylor Road, Wildwood; 636-821-1233), the stylish restaurant and bar from the team behind Six Mile Bridge Beer, has closed. The restaurant served its last guests this past Sunday.

WonderLight’s Christmas at World Wide Technology Raceway features approximately 2 miles of LED Christmas lights synchronized to rocking Christmas music.   Open nightly from Nov. 11 to Jan. 1, including

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A research group says levels of the controversial and drift-prone weedkiller dicamba have more than tripled in the urine samples of people in the Midwest — even in urban areas.