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Paige Walden-Johnson originally founded the CommUNITY Arts Festival out of the need to support her friend Rain Stippec, a dancer who was shot eight times…

Murals will transform five downtown Belleville buildings as part of an effort to showcase art in the Metro East community.The Belleville City Council…

When David Patterson Silver Wolf refers to the U.S. opioid epidemic as part of a “disease of despair” and “a tough disease to treat,” he’s speaking from…

Living a life of service, faith and leading by example are strong pillars in the Ahmad household, a St. Louis County family that participates in community…

It’s the chicken or the egg argument.Should city aldermen meet with stakeholders and then craft a bill? Or should the bill be proposed and then brought to…

The St. Charles City Council defeated a proposal Tuesday night that would have banned residents from building shipping-container houses in areas with only…

Updated with St. Charles City Council vote July 6, 2016, 12:51pm - An unusual house made of railroad-shipping containers is going up on Elm Street in St.…

“As St. Louisans we totally don’t know our own city,” said Mike, a caller during Thursday’s “St. Louis on the Air” program. He often comes across…

Charmaine Savage spent years away from her hometown of East St. Louis as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After living away with her husband Lorenzo, also…

“How do you define development?” questioned Richard Baron, the Chairman and CEO of St. Louis-based for-profit community developer McCormack Baron Salazar,…