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Hundreds of steel and iron workers in the Metro East are trying to figure out what's next. Workers were temporarily let go from U.S. Steel Granite City Works and will likely be off the job for several months. Two weeks ago, U.S. Steel announced it was temporarily idling furnace B at the Granite City steel plant. According to a statement on Sept. 18 from a U.S. Steel spokeswoman, the move is "risk mitigation" in response to the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. Here is the full statement: "Following…

Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting The City Beautiful, St. Louis Views 2007-2023, a collection of paintings by Michael […]

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Six licenses were awarded in St. Louis.

St. Louis city officials called off the planned disbandment of a camp of unhoused people in front of City Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Police had congregated at a park around City Hall late Monday night to evict the camp’s holdouts at 10 p.m., but protestors and some residents of the camp refused to leave. 

A woman was killed Monday evening and three others were seriously injured in a five-car crash at Chambers Road and West Florissant Avenue.

We’ve noted a few times now how as the streaming sector consolidates and grows, it’s becoming more and more like the traditional cable industry it disrupted. This enshittification includes a lot of endless price hikes, a steady degradation of product quality, pointless mergers that cause endless layoffs, and the implementation of new restrictive efforts to […]

Dozens of people living in a makeshift encampment on the lawn of St. Louis' City Hall will be forced to move. A spokesperson for St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said the city made the decision to "decommission" the encampment at 10:01 p.m. Monday by enforcing a curfew law that effectively closes parks in the city between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless a person has a permit issued by the Board of Public Service or the director of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry. Later, St. Louis Alderman…

The ghostly bus tour includes lunch and stops at the Bellefontaine Cemetery and Lemp Mansion.

A common anecdote used by disability activists is that the Roman Colosseum is wheelchair accessible.  Translation: Historic buildings have no excuse. But Missouri’s Capitol has long had a myriad of stairways that create a maze for anyone utilizing a wheelchair. I’ve seen parents struggle lifting a stroller over a small set of stairs above the […]

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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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Torch Electronics had sought to prohibit police from investigating or prosecuting his company, which has supplied thousands of slot machines to businesses across the state.

City leaders are looking to chart a new course for the homeless as dozens camp outside City Hall.

STL CityWide was known as Asprient Properties and is registered to Vic Alston, who with brother Sid Chakraverty, have developed more than 1,000 apartments in St. Louis and own hundreds more.

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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Several people who are homeless are still outside St. Louis City Hall despite an attempt to remove them from the area. The city's effort came hours after Board of Aldermen members announced plans for a so-called Unhoused Bill of Rights.