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Bryant Creek State Park, covering nearly 3,000 acres in the southern Missouri Ozarks, opens on Friday.

After two years of pushback from the City of Wildwood, the fire district plans to break ground on the new fire station No. 2 before winter.

The St. Louis-based firm is seeking Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certification, which represents a serious commitment to improving diversity of its leadership, partner base and C-suite.

Eighty open cases of child abuse and neglect sat on Matt Cordova’s desk in 2017 during the height of the “hole I found myself buried in,” he remembers. Twenty open cases would have been a lot to handle; 80 was impossible. An investigator at Missouri’s child welfare department for two years, Cordova was tasked with […]

The post ‘This job is impossible’: High turnover, low morale plague Missouri child welfare agency appeared first on Missouri Independent.

MARYVILLE — State Senator Kris Tharp is launching a listening tour in the Metro East to address concerns with the SAFE-T Act. “My family and I have worked in law enforcement our entire lives,” said Tharp (D-Bethalto). “My priorities remain ensuring our communities are safe, keeping criminals off our streets and providing law enforcement with the tools to do their job. The goal of my listening tour is to make sure these vital concerns are addressed and heard in Springfield.” Newly-appointed Tharp does not support several provisions in the SAFE-T Act and is working with the law enforcement community to file new legislation to address concerns about: Ensuring those accused of violent offenses are kept behind bars until trial to keep communities safe; Providing an appropriate amount of judicial discretion while trying cases and; Clarifying the definition of flight risks to ensure it is clear and address the issues created by individuals who fail to

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On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery

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Greater St. Louis Inc. is pushing to ban new large clubs in most of downtown and require any new drinking establishment to close by 1:30 a.m.

Dozens of nervous, excited dogs take over the public pool for one day after it closes for the season.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.02% for the week ended Sept. 15 — up from 5.89% the prior week.

In order for the city's plan for a new Lambert terminal to succeed, it must convince the airlines that serve the airport that the investments are necessary.

New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and

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Here are renderings or the QuikTrip proposed for Grand and Lafayette in the Tiffany neighborhood. They are consistent with the site plan published here last month. Since a zoning-only building permit application was submitted to the city in May, zoning variances have not appeared on a Board of Adjustment agenda yet, nor the demolition of 3616 McRee […]

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SA Hospital Acquisition Group LLC, which owns South City Hospital, "entered into an asset purchase agreement with American Healthcare Systems a few months ago."

Post Malone apologized to his St. Louis fans Sunday for an on-stage accident that sent him to the hospital and shortened his set the night before at the Enterprise Center.

During the COVID crisis, the FCC launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB program), which gives lower income Americans a $50 ($75 for those in tribal lands) discount off of their broadband bill. Under the program, the government gave money to ISPs, which then doled out discounts to users if they qualified. But (and I’m sure […]

A Chesterfield-based agency specializing in employee benefits for individuals and employers has been acquired.