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The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked high housing prices all across the country in places long insulated from them. Remote, rural towns where real estate prices remained low for decades are now seeing unprecedented price spikes, which are compounding problems for the rural poor.

Both political parties have introduced proposals for a bill of rights aimed at parents with children in schools.

Jurisdictions with mask mandates averaged 15.8 cases per day for every 100,000 residents, compared to 21.7 in unmasked communities.

Municipalities can levy up to 3% on recreational cannabis sales on top of existing sales taxes. Cities around the Metro East are using that new revenue in different ways.

When it comes to the wealth gap, a college degree “doesn’t serve as an equalizer among Black and white families,” said Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Dennis Owsley, the author, photographer and jazz historian who hosted the St. Louis Public Radio show “Jazz Unlimited” until 2019, has died in Arizona. He was 78.

COVID-19 cases rose 20%, hospitalizations 30% since the end of October

"Making History" was supposed to be on display in the Missouri State Museum in the Capitol until Dec. 26, but it was removed within days of its installation in September after GOP lawmakers complained to the governor's office.

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, on Tuesday announced he'll run for a sixth term in Congress, ending months of chatter about his possible entrance in the Republican primary to unseat Gov. JB Pritzker in 2022.

The St. Louis Health Department wants to help residents advocate for their health concerns through an online community survey.

The banjo innovator is touring behind his first bluegrass album in 22 years.

A federal judge in St. Louis on Monday temporarily barred the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from requiring health care workers in Missouri and nine other states to get the COVID-19 vaccine.