St. Louis Department of Public Health

Updated at 10:15 p.m. May 27 with Mayor Lyda Krewson's announcement that Dr. Fred Echols will be acting health director Members of the St. Louis Board of…

After a record number of influenza cases in St. Louis County in the last week of 2017, the numbers have dipped, but only slightly. The St. Louis County…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 14, 2010 - In 1875, amid steamboats churning the muddy waterway, a tugboat came up the river…