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Trash piled up for nearly a month in tiny Hillsdale. It was finally picked up this week.

Aside from being an eyesore, trash collecting outside of the homes of Hillsdale residents presented serious health concerns.

St. Louis wants to spend millions on flood recovery and prep. You can weigh in.

St. Louis officials have proposed how to spend $26 million to address "unmet needs" tied to severe flash flooding that struck the area nearly two years ago.

RFT owner faced IRS issues, complaints of rash decisions. He says the sale was 'brutal.'

Personal financial issues for the Riverfront Times' owner could have made the job even tougher. He says lagging revenue was the real culprit.

Free e-books available at airport, other St. Louis locations through new library program

Free e-books and audiobooks will be available in various St. Louis locations, including the airport.

No print edition of the Post-Dispatch on July 4th. Puzzles, comics to run a day early.

We in the news industry have grown accustomed to change. We’ve had to continually re-think how we deliver news and where readers want to read (or view or listen to) that news.

Carondelet Boulevard under Interstate 55 closed starting June 19

That section of road is expected to be closed for a week.

St. Louis is one of the nation's best cities for a nude bike ride, study says

LawnStarter ranked the 500 biggest US cities to find the best cities for naked biking, and St. Louis ranked 18th.

On Missouri's pig circuit, it's about shiny hair, smooth skin and fierce competition

Pig shows in Missouri are competitive, all-day affairs, and they've swelled in numbers in recent years.

More mosquitoes are in the St. Louis area but not the kind that carry diseases

We are in mosquito season and officials in St. Louis are ramping up efforts to control them while monitoring mosquito species new to the area.

Jennings celebrates its first Juneteenth Parade

The city of Jennings hosted its first Juneteenth Parade on Saturday.

Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District approves employee raises

Upcoming raises were approved Thursday for the vast majority of Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District employees.

Softball-sized hail possible, but not likely, in St. Louis area Thursday evening

The window for severe storm activity extends from Thursday afternoon through the evening.

A push to mark the buried history of ‘harrowing’ slave prisons near Busch Stadium

Thousands of people were once held in underground slave prisons in St. Louis, where Busch Stadium and Ballpark Village now stand.

‘Heat dome’ will bring high temperatures to the St. Louis region

The unusually hot weather will last six to 10 days, said meteorologist Brad Charboneau, with the National Weather Service in St. Louis

A 98-year-old Missouri man’s liver was donated. He may be the oldest US organ donor ever.

Orville Allen, a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, lived a lifetime of service.

Messenger: MoDOT wanted to get rid of a homeless camp. So it tore down a hill of trees.

Two people were camping in woods near I-255 and Telegraph Road. MoDOT bulldozers scraped the land bare.

Feds tell East St. Louis city officials to fix housing authority problems or face sanctions

HUD officials discovered in a review of the local housing authority that two of its board members did not live in the city.

Questions about highway construction or traffic lights? Ask the Road Crew

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Downtown St. Louis police substation to move to Globe Building

The owners of the Globe Building are donating the space for 10 years and paying for the build out.

For shrinking Mississippi River towns, frequent floods worsen fortunes

Flooding has pushed people out of their homes near the Mississippi River at a roughly 30% higher rate than the U.S. as a whole, according to data provided exclusively to The Associated Press by the risk analysis firm First Street.

Missouri teacher ‘wouldn’t recommend’ OnlyFans career, says she’s a ‘total outcast’

Former St. Clair High School teacher Megan Gaither says criticism of her p*rnography work has been relentless. Most of all, she misses teaching.

A radiation compensation law expired. A bill to expand benefits to Missouri didn’t get a vote.

While a law that gives compensation to victims of radiation exposure expired Friday, hope persists that it will be renewed and potentially expanded to Missouri.

Houses proposed for Town and Country strip mall too dense for ‘country’ character, officials say

McBride Homes is proposing homes around three streets anchored by a restaurant and greenspace in place of the Woods Mill Center, a strip mall southwest of I-64 and Highway 141.

Cellphone policy gets a look in Clayton schools after parents complain

Superintendent Nisha Patel and her team will collect data on cellphones in schools to present at a board meeting in the fall.

Ludeman out as chairman of Concordance as he focuses on health

The reentry nonprofit that Danny Ludeman founded said he needs time to focus on his health.

Facing outrage, St. Louis Public Schools backpedals on asking teachers to drive the bus

The transportation survey “should have been directed exclusively to non-instructional staff,” Superintendent Keisha Scarlett said Friday.

Developer eyes apartments near St. Louis County MetroLink station

Kittle Property Group of Indiana is proposing a 192-unit development near the North Hanley MetroLink station.

More details emerge for apartments, offices planned near Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital

Capri on Olive would have over 100 apartments and several commercial spaces off Olive Boulevard and Mason Road, plans show.

Maryland Heights to have more oversight of troubled Centene Community Ice Center

City officials said they will have more oversight over the operations of the Centene Community Ice Center that they said will enhance the efficiency of the troubled facility.

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