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More than 300 participating locations across Missouri, Illinois and Iowa will offer 40 cents off per gallon of fuel from 3-6 p.m. Friday.

A Belleville, Illinois, man was sentenced earlier this week to nearly six years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm.

Data brokers like Experian and Equifax pose tempting targets for malicious hackers looking to find another source for personal info they can hawk online to other malicious people. The sad thing is, no one really needs to hack their databases. They’re more than willing to just leave them exposed. In 2017, Equifax leaked personal info […]

All year long I kept hearing that labor unions were making a comeback in 2022. Apparently I was misled: The good news, such as it is, is that the number of private sector union members went up by about 200,000. But that was only because the number of total workers went up. The unionization rate ...continue reading "Raw data: Union membership continues to fall"

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The Department of Public Safety says it has asked its vendor to address the problem “with urgency.”

On January 18, 2023, Anheuser-Busch will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Budweiser Clydesdales in St. Louis, Missouri.

Drivers around Missouri, Illinois and Iowa can enjoy a discount on gas Friday at their local Circle K location.

From Construction Dive:  Construction needs to find more workers, and there are no easy-to-fill jobs in the industry. In fact, according to an Associated General Contractors of America survey of its members, 91% of contractors had trouble filling positions last year, and experts say the labor crunch for these positions isn’t going to let up anytime […]

The City of St. Louis community blood drive will be held on Monday, February 6th, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 208 of St. Louis City Hall.

Fans have been given a peek inside the memorial service held earlier this month in honor of the late Fleetwood Mac star Christine McVie. A photo shared on her Instagram page shows a piano covered…

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From Utility Dive:  The U.S. Department of Energy is relaunching a mapping tool designed to help identify areas of the country that are ideal for uses such as wind and solar farms, and has updated it to allow users to specify the type of project they’re siting. The Geospatial Energy Mapper, or GEM, launched in 2013 […]

From Construction Dive:  COVID-19 claimed more construction worker lives in its first year than any other cause, according to a data analysis by Silver Spring, Maryland-based CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training. Based on first-of-its-kind Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, the research looked at 2020’s 224,400 construction worker deaths, both on […]

A Cass County, Missouri judge expunged Adam Mace's marijuana conviction, making him first prisoner to be released under state's new law

The Republican governor wants state lawmakers to approve a spending plan worth more than $50 billion.

From Leader Publications: After three hours of public comments and discussions, the Herculaneum Planning and Zoning Commission voted Monday to recommend approval of two requests from the Love’s Travel Stops company to build a truck stop west of I-55 and north of McNutt Street and Providence Way. The P&Z Commission advises the Herculaneum Board of Aldermen […]

From St. Louis Public Radio:  Cahokia Heights has not yet received the funding promised by state and federal leaders to fix failing infrastructure that causes raw sewage to back up in some residents’ homes and yards and stormwater to flood their streets. Officials have been working to find funding since media coverage and lawsuits starting in 2020 detailed the […]

From the New Yorker:  Before Jason Ballard became an entrepreneur, he considered becoming a priest. His speech is still peppered with the idiom of faith—wicked, angels, sacred—and, when he latches on to a subject he cares about, he assumes a rousing, propulsive cadence. These days, the topic he is most evangelical about is our broken […]