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City dwellers woke up on Nov. 28, 1939, in a thick fog of acrid coal smoke. Suburbanites heading to work saw a low dome of darkness covering neighborhoods east of Kingshighway.

CrisisGo provides emergency communication for 16,000 schools throughout U.S. along with corporate customers in 35 countries.

From deadly wildfires to choking dust storms to decimated crop harvests, this year’s drought has left its mark in the Midwest and recovering won't be easy.

Over the course of Schmitt’s tenure as attorney general as he ran for U.S. Senate, his record keeping was sparse.

St. Charles, Kimmswick and Belleville are awash in holiday traditions.

It's the first-time students will return to the classroom since the deadly school shooting on Oct. 24.

History is being made on Monday, November 28 at the St. Louis City Hall. Alderwoman Megan Green has been sworn in as the new president of the Board of Aldermen.

Metrolink restores full service to its blue line trains on Monday, November 28.

There was a traffic jam on I-55 near the Poplar Street Bridge in St. Louis on Monday morning.

A break-in happened at Heart to Heart Consumer Directed Services.

It’s official. The first public filings have become available for Greater St. Louis Inc and they confirm a persistent theme of the business community. It’s one we’ve tracked in this bureau for almost four decades and it goes like this:

Overnight, more businesses in St. Louis were targeted by smash-and-grab burglaries

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments on stopping the execution of Kevin Johnson. He was convicted of murdering a veteran Kirkwood police officer.

The home’s stained glass windows add to its castle-like feel

Counterfeit goods hurt the nation and the economy, and can even hurt the person who buys them.

For the first time in its history, the only real limit on what Missouri can buy on a cash-and-carry basis is the imagination of the people spending the money. The state treasury is bulging with more than $6 billion in surplus cash, the result of 28 months of double-digit revenue growth and federal payments tied […]

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St. Louis city attorneys have unleashed a blistering response to a lawsuit claiming officials violated the state open-records law.

There are any number of takeaways one can glean from the recent midterm elections. But one that should be getting more attention is that the public is sick and tired of bitter bickering and obsession with false issues at the expense of the real ones that need fixing. As Congress and state legislatures around the […]

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Why do Republicans defend polluting vehicles? Because Democrats love the saintly Prius.

Here are some of the other brands that have promised to phase out PFAS.