Kavahn Mansouri
Investigative Reporter | NPR Midwest NewsroomKavahn Mansouri joins KCUR 89.3 and the Midwest Newsroom from the Belleville (Illinois) News-Democrat.
There, his beat focused on covering local government, with a mission to hold elected officials and public agencies accountable. He also contributed to the breaking news beat daily and maintained the paper’s Public Pay Database, which tracks salaries and wages at taxpayer-funded institutions throughout the state.
A native of St. Louis, Kavahn is a graduate of Webster University. You can reach him at kmansouri@umkc.edu.
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Democratic incumbent Sam Page beat his Republican challenger Mark Mantovani. -
A $1.2 billion plan dubbed the Gateway South Project would see the land south of the St. Louis Arch grounds transformed into entertainment, residential, recreation and industry space. -
The North Omaha Station, a coal burning power plant, was supposed to stop burning coal next year. But its owner wants an extension to keep burning coal for three more years. -
Good Development Group owns or controls approximately 50 acres of "potential development site" located south of Interstate 64 and proposes developing the location into a residential, retail, entertainment, office and industrial area. -
With a fraction of millions of American Rescue Plan Act dollars allocated or spent, the city and groups serving the homeless face each other across a divide of paperwork and procedures. -
Two days after a record-breaking rainfall, another storm hit St. Louis, causing more flooding throughout the metro area. -
The St. Louis Development Corporation is on the lookout for a consultant that can help improve its internal workings. That's weeks after a federal grand jury indicted a St. Louis alderman for allegedly pressuring agency staff to sell property to a businessman in exchange for a bribe. -
Special edition of Politically Speaking details indictments that led to the resignation of Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed and two aldermen. -
A former assistant to a county councilwoman and current jail administrator has been charged in an attempted COVID relief kickback plan. -
A grand jury indictment unsealed on Thursday accuses St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed, as well as former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad and Alderman Jeffrey Boyd, of taking payments in return for their support for development deals. -
The Missouri Supreme Court sent a case involving the Second Amendment Preservation Act back to a lower court on Tuesday. The ruling lets St. Louis and Jackson County argue that the law, which prevents police in Missouri from cooperating with federal officials to enforce gun regulations, is unconstitutional. -
Records show that two Independence, Missouri, police employees reported working more than 1,000 hours of overtime in 2021, raising questions about safety and who's watching extra pay at City Hall.
