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Metro Transit warns customers that its services are delayed due to flash flooding conditions on Tuesday. Historic rainfall moved into the St. Louis area overnight Monday and into the early morning Tuesday, causing flash flooding. Metro Transit announced that its MetroBus, MetroLink and Metro Call-A-Ride are all affected by these conditions. KSDK talked to Taulby Roach, president and CEO of Bi-State Development, which oversees Metro Transit. He said he's asking the Federal Transit Administration…

Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis has filled two vacant roles with hospitality industry veterans.

The St. Louis Area Foodbank event was postponed due to flooding on Tuesday.

Nurse and heiress Trudy Busch-Valentine holds a slight lead over attorney Lucas Kunce in the race to be the Democratic nominee for one of Missouri's U.S. Senate seats, according to a new poll.

St. Louis broke the record yesterday for the most rain in a single day leading to flash flooding throughout the region. One person died in the high water and many more are wondering how they will recover.

An early morning crash has caused lane closures at I-44.

Missouri MetroLink riders are encouraged to seek alternative transportation options "until further notice," says Metro Transit.

Republicans on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and law enforcement witnesses at a Tuesday hearing blamed recent violence against officers on anti-police rhetoric, while Democrats distanced themselves from the “defund the police” slogan and said an oversupply of guns made law enforcement jobs more dangerous. Republicans on the panel raised complaints about general attitudes toward […]

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Anyone who’s read George Orwell’s “1984,” the dystopian novel about life in the U.S. under an authoritarian regime, knows that to survive, one had to accept whatever Big Brother said no matter how big the lie. Proof you’d come to fully embrace the all-controlling Party was to believe without question that two plus two never […]

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The state department of transportation says many of its highway projects have “no significant impact.”

If you use MetroLink for your morning commute, be aware that the historic rainfall and flooding are causing service disruptions and those issues may not end anytime soon.

The city’s decision to relocate a scrapyard to a majority Black and Brown community is part of a pattern of environmental discrimination, according to a federal investigation.

'We cannot co-manage what is under the custody of people who have been destroying it.'

Founding Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Bob Weir and his side band Wolf Bros have lined up a fall U.S. tour that's mapped out from a September 30 show in Waterbury, Connecticut,…

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O'Fallon Police did not provide details on where the elderly man was located but say he is safe.

Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.

Excessive reverence for unwritten Senate rules has dashed the campaign to remake the bench.

Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.

New federal rulemaking on interoperability and public investment has opened Tesla’s Supercharger network to non-Tesla users.