The future of public transit in the bi-state region was addressed this week. Over 120 members of Citizens for Modern Transit, elected officials, and transit riders took part in a Talking Transit Zoom meeting. Updates were provided about the current work to expand Metrolink to MidAmerica STL Airport, the Northside/Southside Corridor Plan with STL City…
ATLANTA (AP) — The judge presiding over the Georgia prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others for efforts to overturn the 2020 election is set to hear a motion alleging that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been romantically involved with a special prosecutor she hired for the case. Fulton County Superior Court…
The Affordable Housing Commission has announced it has tripled it’s annual awards supporting the construction and preservation of affordable housing in the City of St.Louis. The almost 16 million dollars in grants and loans will support a record-breaking 46 affordable housing programs and 14 housing developments in the City. New award recipients this year include Habitat…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Major cities on the U.S. East Coast have broken a snow drought of sorts. Meanwhile, other parts of the country were struggling Tuesday with perilously low temperatures that closed schools, cut power and likely contributed to cold exposure deaths. New York City’s Central Park has recorded more than an inch of…
The Missouri Department of Conservation is beginning the New Year by acknowledging highlights from 2023 in the St.Louis Region. The Dept. Is looking back on last year’s accomplishments in our region, which include the opening of the Howard Wood Urban Outreach Office on Shenandoah in St.Louis. Town and Country resident Ray Wagner Jr became the…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council. All seven of St. Paul’s city council members are now under 40 years old, and six out of…
Next week, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will launch a new campaign identifying the leading causes of death in the state. The campaign is designed to educate Missourians about the risk factors associated with the leading causes of death, answer commonly asked questions, and to help empower the public to make positive…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A sprawling storm has hit the South with high winds and tornado warnings that blew roofs off homes, flipped over campers and tossed about furniture in Florida. Another storm brought cities across the Midwest to a standstill with more than half of foot of snow. as it heads to the…
The Missouri Department of Transportation is moving ahead with a major project to improve highway safety in the St.Louis region. Following a Highways and Transportation meeting this week in Jefferson City ,West Contracting Company has been awarded the contract for the St.Louis Safety Improvements Project, a $52 million dollar effort to improve STL County roads,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Biden administration grapples with an increasingly tense and unstable situation in the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the region this weekend for the fourth time in three months on a tour expected to focus largely on easing resurgent fears that the Israel-Hamas war could erupt…