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The budget includes 1% raises for state employees for every two years on the job up to 10 years, as well as $375 million for school transportation.

Proposition B would allow the St. Louis County Council to fire department heads and the county counselor.

Edwardsville and East Alton will see new board leadership as school districts have struggled to navigate budget shortfalls after pandemic-era relief money dried up last year.

Paul Thiel’s poetry collection “Snapshots” is a memoir full of vivid details from 1960s San Francisco, 1970s New York and the bygone nightlife scene in St. Louis and East St. Louis.

The bill requires school districts to develop a written policy on cellphone use in schools. That policy must be in place for the 2026-27 school year.

Rain is expected to fall over the St. Louis region through the weekend, bringing risks of wind, tornadoes, hail and floods.

California U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff’s decision to place a hold on Ed Martin’s U.S. attorney nomination for Washington, D.C., casts doubt on whether he’ll get confirmed.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reports that overall crime in the city is down by 28% from the first quarter of last year.

Jane Sacro Chatham of Vicia is up for emerging chef and Loryn Nalic of Balkan Treat Box for best chef: Midwest.

In mid-February, the federal government cut a $4.7 million grant to the Arbor Day Foundation’s Community Roots Program. It brings trees to low-income communities. Beyond Housing, Forest ReLeaf and the Friends of the Bellefontaine Cemetery would have planted thousands of trees with the funding.