July 23, 2021 · moindependent
Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources called claims that it violated residents’ civil rights “unsubstantiated and conclusory” even as it quietly addressed several…
July 22, 2021 · moindependent
Missouri must expand Medicaid to 275,000 eligible people who were expecting coverage under a constitutional amendment that took effect July 1, the…
July 22, 2021 · moindependent
After years spent lagging behind its neighbors in renewable energy production, Missouri may finally be on the cusp of a green makeover of its…
July 21, 2021 · moindependent
In a bid to increase vaccination rates to combat the Delta variant’s growing spread, Gov. Mike Parson announced Wednesday an…
July 21, 2021 · moindependent
In a move long-time legal observers say is unusual, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will, on its own motion, review a…
July 21, 2021 · moindependent
It’s been nearly 100 days since St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones stood on the white marble staircase of City Hall’s…
July 20, 2021 · moindependent
A handful of parents pleaded with state lawmakers to take action on critical race theory in schools — an academic…
July 19, 2021 · moindependent
Missouri requested Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reconsider its rejection of the state’s vaccine incentive plan.…
July 19, 2021 · moindependent
With hospitals swamped and hundreds of cases daily from a Delta variant surge of infection, Springfield is a warning of what is…
July 18, 2021 · admin
ST. LOUIS – Maryfrances Wagner, a poet, teacher and community leader from Independence, Mo., has been named as Missouri’s sixth…
July 18, 2021 · moindependent
The neighborhood children would affectionately call them “Mama Erby” and “Mama Thompson.” For decades, Former St. Louis County Councilwoman Hazel…
July 18, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that the Justice Department intended to appeal a federal judge’s ruling deeming illegal a program enacted…
July 17, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
ST. LOUIS – U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh was in St. Louis on Thursday to discuss health care and…
July 17, 2021 · moindependent
Significant changes are being considered for Missouri’s low income housing tax credits, one of the state’s most expensive and controversial…
July 16, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
CITY HALL – Two key city officials failed to reach agreement Friday on changes that would have allowed distribution of…
July 15, 2021 · MetroSTL Staff
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri students could have access as soon as next year to scholarships for private schools through…