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Environmental advocates are raising concerns that a Missouri law enacted last year to speed up utilities’ transition to renewable energy may soon be changed to make it easier for companies to keep coal plants partially open.  Last year, Missouri and Kansas enacted laws allowing electric utilities to “securitize” aging coal plants and retire them early […]

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1. Microcinema This Wednesday, April 13, Arkadin (5228 Gravois Avenue, 314-221-2173, arkadincinema.com) will screen Magical Springtime Shorts and Other Oddities, as presented by Silents, Please STL (a St. Louis film series dedicated to promoting silent film).

The restaurant, with "Middle Eastern undertones," is to serve small bites, brunch, coffee and liquor, in a space blocks from popular spots Egg and The Fountain on Locust.

As of early April, the International Institute hadn't received guidelines from the U.S. government regarding a program to welcome Ukrainian refugees.

Last month, a judge gave preliminary approval to a $1.3 million settlement in a "debtors' prison" class action lawsuit against the city of Normandy. Earlier this week, the ArchCity Defenders law firm, which brought the suit, set up a website for as many as 25,000 people who are eligible for some of the settlement money to start the process of receiving it.

The Kansas City Police Department has identified the 14-year-old boy stabbed and killed at Northeast Middle School on Tuesday.

City's abundance of Christians, churches and flower shops puts city at No. 5 on the list of U.S. cities and their Easter observance.

O’Fallon, Illinois, junior high school teachers PJ and Jamie Creek built a thriving business creating detail-rich posters about American government. They discuss their first book, “We the People and the Presidency,” and the art of making social studies accessible to students.

This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on April 8, 2022.  St. Louis’ engineering firms are having a good year. For the 19 firms that reported local engineering revenue for 2020 and 2021, most reported growth. The 16 firms that grew local engineering revenue reported an average increase of 17% from 2020 to 2021, representing a combined increase of […]

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A boat captain and two other former employees of Ride the Ducks are again charged with 17 counts each of first-degree involuntary manslaughter. The captain is facing an additional 12 counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Lawmakers are considering sending checks to Missourians to spend down some of the surplus revenue the state has received in the past two years

A sky lit with clouds, a canopy of trees, a brook thick with fish you can catch in your bare hands. With its exultant natural imagery and ruminative narrator, Goran Stolevski's You Won't Be Alone feels at times like a Terrance Malick film, albeit one clawed through with shocking body horror.

Fireworks will once again light up the skies over the Gateway Arch this Fourth of July. Fair Saint Louis announced details of its 2022 annual celebration, which will take place July 2-4 – Saturday through Monday – at Kiener Plaza and Ballpark Village in downtown St. Louis. Like last year, organizers are planning one big fireworks show on July 4 instead of several nights of fireworks. It will be the biggest fireworks event in the history of Fair Saint Louis, according to an event spokesperson. This…

Judge Michael Carter is running in a six-way primary for the 10th Senate District.

Moderate morning thunderstorms wiped out the energy needed for larger storms to develop later in the day.

A Creve Coeur-based distributor of home appliance parts has expanded a suburban Chicago-based HVAC distributor it bought earlier this year with the acquisition of a New England business.