A 25-seat basement bar opened March 15 beneath Monstera Mezcaleria, pairing $12 cocktails, freezer martinis and a tongue-in-cheek roller-food menu.

A St. Louis firm bought four historic Kansas City buildings that contain 369 loft apartments, including Library Lofts at 1004 Baltimore Ave.

A House-passed bill to ban automatic recurring campaign charges drew praise in a Senate committee and now heads to debate after reporting showed repeated charges to vulnerable donors.

Longtime St. Charles lawman Tom Neer has died. Visitation and funeral services are scheduled April 4 at Baue Funeral Home.

St. Louis County police say a man was found dead after a shooting at Heatherton Estates in Florissant; detectives have released few details as the investigation continues.

A Dallas‑to‑Chicago United flight was diverted to Lambert on Nov. 16 after a passenger reported a bomb in his wife’s luggage; authorities searched the plane and detained one person.

Sen. Cory Booker stopped in Florissant to promote Stand and roll out the Keep Your Pay Act, a plan to make the first $75,000 of household income tax-free that analysts warn could cost trillions.

A $50 scratch-off bought at a north-county QuikTrip turned into a $5 million payday after the game's multiplier pushed the ticket to the top prize.

Court filings unsealed in March 2026 allege an O'Fallon teen stabbed a man and a woman in the head in May 2025; prosecutors added new counts after reviewing investigators' files.

A Cool Valley standoff ended with a woman arrested after a reported stabbing; the victim was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

Jurors heard racist social-media posts from a St. Louis officer — including the slur "ghetto cockroach" — in a trial over the 2016 shooting of a 14-year-old.

A child was critically injured Tuesday afternoon in a shooting near Broadway and Humboldt in north St. Louis. Police are investigating and asking witnesses to come forward.

STL’s Consolidated Terminal Program would replace two terminals with one, expanding retail and restaurants and promising a much larger parking garage. Design work and enabling projects are already under way.