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The budget includes raising the minimum pay for teachers, fully funding the state’s Medicaid program, including its expansion population, and income tax credits, as well as close to $3 billion in federal funding for projects across the state.

A provision that would limit the amount of lead allowed in school drinking water to five parts per billion has been tacked onto an education bill.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to cool off demand and lower inflation. Consumer prices have been rising at the fastest pace in 40 years.

A draft opinion published by Politico suggests that earlier this year a majority of Supreme Court justices supported overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.

Eric Schmitt has refused to drop three of his 47 lawsuits against school districts, while the Lee’s Summit district filed a counterclaim against the attorney general.

A St. Louis area hiking group received a $120,000 grant from the National Park Foundation to provide funding for Black people to visit five national parks.

More than four years after a former airman killed 26 people at a rural Texas church, advocates say the military still needs to do more to prevent violent service members and veterans from owning guns.

St. Louis University honors Arundhati Roy at the Sheldon Concert Hall on Thursday.

A new review from the National Education Association teachers union found Missouri teachers are near the bottom in pay by multiple measures.

In addition to meddling by Trump administration officials, the subcommittee report said lobbyists for Yellow Corp. leveraged its close ties with the administration to obtain a loan on terms so favorable that it violated guidelines of the CARES Act.

Councilmembers are allocating federal American Rescue Plan funds to help beef up staff in St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell’s office and to tear down the abandoned north county shopping center.

Mayor Tishaura Jones details plans to spend $150 million in north St. Louis and addresses recent setbacks in her aim to reform the city’s criminal justice system.