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Legalized recreational cannabis found favor with the majority of Missouri voters today. Amendment 3, the initiative legalizing recreational use of marijuana, won 53% of the vote in Tuesday's midterm. The measure fell behind early in the night, but continued to gain steadily as election returns were tallied.

Democrat Tracy McCreery wins a competitive bid for a prominent St. Louis County-based state Senate seat.

Trident Refit Facility Kings Bay held a ceremony marking the re-opening of its dry dock at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, Oct. 18. The nearly $600 million Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southeast recapitalization project began in the summer of 2020. More than 1,000 people worked on the project, spearheaded by Alberici-Mortenson, Joint […]

A prolific thief appeared in federal court and admitted to stealing dozens of catalytic converters around the St. Louis area.

Keep up with some of the biggest races in Missouri and the St. Louis area here.

Democrats did well enough to prevent a red wave.

Voters have selected Jack Coatar/Megan Green as the next president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.

An uphill battle for Democratic Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine officially became too steep when Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt registered a win in the contest to replace retiring GOP Sen. Roy Blunt on Tuesday night.

Parents of students at Jana Elementary School will receive an update on the tests the Army Corps of Engineers has been conducting.

5 On Your Side has confirmed that Interstate 64 is back open after being closed for over three hours.

State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick won the race to become Missouri’s next auditor Tuesday, easily defeating former state Rep. Alan Green. With 56% of precincts reporting, Fitzpatrick, a Republican, held a 62% to 34% lead over Green, a Democrat who previously represented Florissant in the Missouri House.  The auditor’s office, tasked with the impartial review of […]

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The result came in an unusual race in which the incumbent touted his work fighting the Covid-19 pandemic while the challenger cast the contest in terms of whether the region would "continue to decline."

Former Kansas City morning news anchor Mark Alford and state Sen. Eric Burlison have been elected to Congress as Republicans, replacing incumbents who chose to run for the U.S. Senate rather than seek reelection.

The result marks another win for the city's progressives and loss for big business interests.

Republican challenger Mark Mantovani has conceded the St. Louis County executive race to incumbent Sam Page. With preliminary results in and 209 of 239 precincts reporting, the St. Louis County election board is reporting Page has a four point lead. The county executive race has been bizarre from the start.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis revealed Tuesday that it will postpone changes to Catholic elementary schools until the 2024–25 school year.

Cori Bush will serve a second term as a Missouri Congresswoman.

Eric Schmitt will take the seat occupied for the past 12 years by Republican Roy Blunt.

Pritzker first won political office in 2018 when he took the governor’s seat.