The completion of a project to control underseepage along the Wood River Levee that runs adjacent to the Mississippi River marks the latest effort to address a crucial flood prevention tool that hasn’t always held up during the region’s worst floods.

During the heat wave, Red Cross shelters for tornado victims will also serve as cooling shelters for people who were affected by the storm.

The Farm Bureau aims to reach an underinsured population, but without government oversight.

The St. Louis Carnivorous Plant Society is full of enthusiasts who prefer meat-eating plants over the ones with strict solar diets. It will hold its annual sale at the Missouri Botanical Gardens on Saturday.

Missouri’s 2023 ban prohibits providers from giving hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries to Missourians under 18.

Five dozen communities in Southern Illinois account for a third of the reported sanitary sewer overflows in the state in the last decade. But with low revenues, population declines, and bureaucratic delays, solutions are hard to come by. Meanwhile, residents face property damage flooded yards and basements and governments that still haven’t fixed the problem.

The measure is attached to a ballot initiative that would place a ban on most abortions in the Missouri Constitution.

The St. Louis region has seen persistent ozone air pollution in recent years, leading the Environmental Protection Agency to label it as a serious nonattainment area.

The funding was part of a three-year, $2 million grant that went toward outreach efforts at the Bullet Related Injury Clinic. The grant program began in October 2024 and was cut short in April.

Energy infrastructure can both cause, and be severely affected by, wildfires.