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Steph Quinn/Missouri IndependentThe Older Americans Act supports programs to keep Missourians 60 and above healthy and connected to their communities. The state’s area agencies on aging say that amid rising costs and demand, federal delays could mean fewer services -
U.S. Department of AgricultureState and federal officials are gearing up to stop the advance of a parasitic fly that is less than 70 miles from the United States border with Mexico.
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The contract, covering 140,000 St. Louis-area patients, had been set to expire at midnight Wednesday. -
The report found that 91% of all pregnancy-related deaths were potentially preventable, including all those resulting from mental health conditions or substance use disorders. -
A federal judge ruled that the owners also broke federal law when they laid people off without proper notice, and that those workers are owed more than $1.9 million in damages. -
At grassland sites worldwide, including the Midwest and Great Plains, scientists simulated extreme drought conditions. The study provides a far-reaching and systematic look at the effects of drought severity. -
Conservation director says deer population management isn’t political — it’s personal. -
Metro-east nursing homes were cited and fined a total of $1.3 million from state and federal regulatory agencies. -
Independence Center, a St. Louis-based rehabilitation program for adults with severe mental illness, received a grant to help reduce the unemployment rate for residents with mental illness in Missouri. -
Luke Karg is the only Missouri student to qualify for the high school national bass fishing championship five times, including as an incoming freshman -
Nurses on Tuesday cited inadequate staffing in the death of a person from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital’s emergency department last month. -
For Ernest Maurice Curry — July 30, 1944 to Oct. 27, 2025 — the six-month aftermath was its own kind of storm, quieter, lonelier and ultimately fatal.
