Perennial Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein faces an arrest warrant in Missouri after neither she nor her attorney appeared at a hearing Monday morning related to misdemeanor charges for t...

Three large signs near the Interstates 44 and 55 interchange south of downtown St. Louis aren’t directing much traffic, though they are turning heads.  The highway signs, meant to guide highway driver...

Matthew Braasch was sentenced to 21 months in prison Tuesday for embezzling from Sam’s Steakhouse. The former bookkeeper was stoic in a short-sleeved, plaid button-down shirt as U.S. District Judge Ro...

This Sunday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch plans to publish a front-page profile of a man with local ties making things happen. “NEW HOPE FOR LOCAL NEWS” the headline reads.  Right under it: A photo of ...

For five nights, Zach Chasnoff says he called the police asking them to do something about the youths terrorizing his LaSalle Park neighborhood, blasting off fireworks, setting a dumpster aflame, and ...

The state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners invited the public to attend its Wednesday meeting to share their thoughts. The people who showed up were all of one mind. They didn’t particularly li...

Last week, the Missouri appeals court dismissed an appeal filed by the state-appointed Police Board, saying it had failed to follow proper procedure in its demands that the City of St. Louis give it a...

The St. Louis Police Board suffered a double loss yesterday—with both the Missouri Supreme Court and the court of appeals rejecting the state-appointed board’s appeal of the ruling denying it an addit...

Mayor Cara Spencer won a rare—and minor—consession from the rest of the Board of Police Commissioners this morning when they voted to postpone a vote on double-digit raises for command staff. Those pr...

St. Louis city leaders got a win in court today in their ongoing battle with the state-appointed Board of Police Commissioners. Judge Joan Moriarty denied the board’s request that $67.5 million be add...

One of the city’s most acclaimed bars appears to be in trouble—with rent past due and one co-founder facing criminal charges, apparently for stealing from the other. Platypus, located in The Grove nei...

A major data center development in St. Louis’ Midtown neighborhood is moving forward now that the Board of Public Service signed off on a conditional use permit for the project on Tuesday afternoon. T...

For weeks now, Rachel Winograd has been fighting to make sure Missouri continues to fund life-saving naloxone for first responders and others across the state. That ought to be a no-brainer: The drug—...

A newly released video shows a St. Louis police officer killing a 17-year-old in June 2024—and reacting with shock when he seemingly realizes the teen had a cell phone, not a gun, in his hand. An atto...

The St. Louis-based influencer is suing Food Outreach Inc., saying he was terminated for his political beliefs.

St. Louis County prosecutors filed felony assault charges this morning against a St. Louis city police officer, alleging he shot a man multiple times at that person’s home in Jennings. Richard Booker ...

A former St. Louis city building inspector was indicted Wednesday on three counts of wire fraud for allegedly funneling city construction contracts to companies set up at his direction by his sister a...

In the past three years, the man who controls parking in the City of St. Louis has forgiven eight of his own parking tickets.  Parking in the city is the domain of the Treasurer’s Office, an entity th...

Chris Graville is the attorney advising the state-controlled board of police commissioners as they write the new rules for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, a process that the board presid...

With the new state-appointed board now running the city’s police department, civilian review of complaints against St. Louis officers could potentially be on its way out—as the State Board’s lawyer su...

In the past three years, the man who controls parking in the City of St. Louis has forgiven eight of his own parking tickets.  Parking in the city is the domain of the Treasurer’s Office, an entity th...

For decades, St. Louis’ Mardi Gras celebration has operated under rules designed to keep patrons safe and the neighborhood happy: Gas stations are not permitted to sell bottles of booze on the day of ...

As the eight months since the May 16 tornado have made apparent, money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency entails plenty of hoops to jump through. Unless, that is, you’re using FEMA dollars ...

The City of St. Louis’ planning department would like to limit large-scale data centers to areas zoned for industry—and even then, the developments would be a conditional use with some serious restric...

How much will the City of St. Louis spend on policing now that the police are under state control? One thing is for certain: It will be a lot more than in years past.  Last week, the governor-appointe...

A woman was found in the bitterly cold city streets Monday and later pronounced dead. Officials have yet to confirm her identity or cause of death. Facebook page VOP News STL St. Louis first reported ...

The state-run board governing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police is poised to give a sizable raise to police officers—another 7 percent bump, just one year after the last. The board appears to have for...

The former owner of the Riverfront Times is poised to pay $168,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from his 2023 purchase of Sauce Magazine. That’s according to a consent judgment filed last week in the ...

A bicycling nonprofit is pedaling back to where it began, with plans to purchase a building of its own for the first time in its 41-year history. STL BWorks, which offers free youth classes in bicycle...

By the time Tuesday’s Franklin County Planning and Zoning Commission kicked off, it was standing room only. Despite folding chairs shoehorned into the commission chambers, many dozens of residents spi...

Identifying the worst intersection in the City of St. Louis isn’t a contest. But if it were, the intersection at Grand Boulevard and Forest Park Avenue would surely be a contender. In addition to thos...

One month ago today, the Saint Louis Science Center convened a meeting of staff assigned to its Community Science program—and then informed all of them they were being let go, effective immediately.  ...

For 42 years, through rain, sleet, and snow, Matt Vossen has delivered the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Until very recently, it was a seven-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year job, one that involved getting up at ...

St. Louis police chief Robert Tracy will be adding some earth-toned tweed to his blue wardrobe:The city’s top cop will be joining the University of Missouri-St. Louis as an educational consultant, a s...

Last week, David Blank, the acting CEO of City Garden Montessori School, watched as $104,661 vanished from the school’s bank account. And City Garden wasn’t alone: All 18 St. Louis charter schools and...

KSDK anchor Mike Bush told staff this morning that he will be retiring from the station next year after a 40-year run. Coworker Frank Cusamano then broke the news to the wider public on The Frank & Ji...

The Post-Dispatch’s embattled parent company’s best chance to head off a purchase by billionaire David Hoffmann came to an abrupt end yesterday. Iowa-based Lee Enterprises had sought to raise $50 mill...

Big changes are now underway in downtown St. Louis—with the groundwork being laid for even bigger ones in the decades to come. In 2026, the Gateway Arch Park Foundation and the National Park Service t...

At a Clayton courthouse yesterday it was as if a game of legal musical chairs had gone off the rails: a former circuit attorney sitting at the equivalent of the defendant’s table, a federal prosecutor...

The autonomous rideshare company is making moves to expand to a dozen more places, including the Gateway City.

Rob Hanselman survived 48 hours in River Des Peres after flash flooding swept him away. A year later, he returned to the riverbank to thank the man who saved him.

This past summer, just weeks before sealing a $6 billion deal meant to bring a new public company to St. Louis, some local businessmen say they learned a surprising truth about their would-be partner:...

A fatal shooting last week at St. Louis Lambert International Airport has put a bright light on the persistent issue of homelessness at the airport, with a source familiar with its operations telling ...

Meert Tree Farm has been a holiday destination since 1963. “It’s a very unique piece of property, just special," says the listing agent.