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The playoffs are here for high school football teams around St. Louis and we have the biggest and best highlights right here on 5 On Your Sideline

Brian M. Gant, a Cybersecurity Assistant Professor at Maryville University, will be honored by The St. Louis American Foundation as an "Excellence in Education" awardee at the 2021 Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Virtual Gala on Nov.…

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker granted Sims’ request for a parole hearing in March. She was granted parole Thursday.

St. Louisans often joke about whether a loud boom is "gunshots or fireworks," but there was little guesswork needed to identify the sounds that interrupted St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Friday at a press conference as she spoke about gun violence.

Held in Dutchtown, the press conference featured Jones and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.…

Get ready to Trick or Treat in Soulard this Halloween between 6 and 9 pm! We’ve put together a map of participating houses in order to optimize your kids’ candy gathering route. Happy Halloween from the SBA!

The post Soulard Trick or Treat 2021 appeared first on Soulard Stronger Together.

Pedestrian deaths have spiked in St. Louis in recent months. Tiffanie Stanfield and Xandi Barrett discuss what they’re each doing to prevent such traffic violence.

Live music has had quite the return this year and the Grand Arts Center isn’t slowing that trend down. The Dark Room at the Grandel (3610 Grandel Square; 314-710-5643) opens back up on November 13 and has a slew of scheduled shows already.…

The Native American tribe that gave its name to the Osage River wants to bring casino gambling to the Lake of the Ozarks, the biggest tourist draw on that river. The Osage Nation Indian Tribe on Friday announced in a news release that it will invest approximately $60 million to develop a hotel featuring gambling, […]

The post Osage Nation planning casino, hotel for Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks appeared first on Missouri Independent.

A Washington campaign finance watchdog has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens alleging he improperly spent more than $100,000 on his U.S. …

A lawsuit filed Friday challenges the renewal process for downtown St. Louis' taxing district, which collects millions of dollars a year for secondary safety and beautification services. Leaders of the entity, called the Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District, said Oct. 21 that they had filed a petition to renew for 20 years, after being set to expire Dec. 31.  Efforts to renew it, which included gathering signatures from a certain number of property owners, began in 2019, though it…

STLPR's new education reporter, Kate Grumke, discusses her first story for the station that takes a look at how the state of Missouri is trying help alleviate the short supply of substitute teachers and meet demand.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is a most appropriate tale for Halloween during the pandemic. This audio version is recited by historical interpreter Anne Williams with production and sound design by Aaron Doerr.

Remodeling gives stores an “elevated design,” improved layout and more refrigeration to make room for additional fresh and frozen foods, the company said.

The move follows reported auctions of the bar's items in March, along with speculation from neighborhood stakeholders that the business had closed amid the pandemic.

Missouri has 988 public electric vehicle charging stations, but is projected to need far more.

Bill DeWitt III said Friday that plans a third phase of Ballpark Village are in its early phases, with residential development to be a key part of the project. He also shared details on the team's recent managerial change and a potential Major League Baseball work stoppage.

The numbers of meatpacking workers infected and killed by the coronavirus are much higher than previously known, a congressional review has found. More than 59,000 workers of the country’s five …

Driving go karts on a track is fun, but driving go karts on ice sounds even better. It’s called “Ice Karting” and it looks fun and slightly dangerous (but in the fun way).

In St. Louis, you’ll be able to try it out for yourself soon at Centene Community Ice Center (750 Casino Center Drive, 314-452-2244) in Maryland Heights, right near Riverport.

The ice karting event will include a custom-made ice track, obstacles you’ll have to steer around and crazy racing outfits that you can wear so you can “race around the track in style.”


But if racing isn’t your thing, they’ll have other ways to entertain yourself on site including curling and hockey shooting.

And did we mention the alcohol?…

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Monday, November 1, 2021 at 5:00 PM, the Soulard Community Improvement District (the “District”) will hold a public meeting to consider and act upon the matters on the following tentative agenda and such other matters as may be presented at the meeting and determined to be appropriate for discussion at […]