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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Officials are investigating an overnight fire in north St. Louis County Thursday. Five people were rescued by a ladder after a fire broke out at an apartment complex in the 4600 block of Whisper Lake Dr. in Black Jack just after midnight. No injuries were reported in the fire. Residents, [...]

The High Low Gallery presents a new exhibition, Night Comfort, featuring works by St. Louis artist Jeremy Rabus, opening Friday, March 27 and running through Sunday, June 14. Night Comfort explores nostalgia through […]

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I’ve noted repeatedly how the Trump administration is going out of its way to not only destroy all oversight of the country’s shitty and predatory telecom monopolies, but to eliminate any and all systems that try to ensure that U.S. broadband access is actually affordable. This stuff often runs in parallel to the administration’s brutal […]

Consumer price inflation reached 4.2% in May, the highest mark in three years, boosted largely by higher energy prices that have spiked because of the Iran war, according to federal numbers released on Wednesday. The higher year-over-year inflation rate was expected. But at more than double the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%, the new numbers dimmed […]

The more than 130-mile, $881 million Eastern Missouri Grid Transformation Project would stretch along the edge of northeast Missouri.

With many students and educators already using widely available artificial intelligence tools, state lawmakers and school districts are playing catch-up on AI policies. In Maryland, for example, AI usage policies for K-12 schools are “all over the map,” Democratic state Sen. Katie Fry Hester said. In some school districts, she said, AI use is encouraged, […]

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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Once mostly untamed woods, with a racetrack, the venerable park has changed with the times.

"I've wanted to be a St. Louis City policeman since I can remember," Michael Mendez said in an interview. "It's always been a dream job of mine."

The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development has until Dec. 1 to craft a new formula for distributing state aid among public colleges and universities — or risk lawmakers creating their own plan that “institutions quite likely will not like,” the state’s higher education commissioner said Wednesday. Bennett Boggs, speaking during a meeting […]