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The House also approved an omnibus education bill that bolsters reading assistance in schools, and a bill giving more protections to sexual assault survivors.

A previous version of the legislation would have taken money away from public school districts to make up for a disparity in funding for public charter schools. Now, the state would handle that responsibility.

Lawmakers in both parties overwhelmingly supported requiring Missouri schools to test and filter children’s drinking water.

“The new green economy can be as exclusive and as unjust as the old one,” said the Rev. Rodrick Burton. He and others want local residents to decide how the region responds to climate change.

Missouri lawmakers continue to struggle to compromise on redrawing the state’s eight congressional districts.

The new map passed by the House likely would keep Missouri’s current congressional delegation of six Republicans and two Democrats. It now goes to the Missouri Senate with only four days left in the legislative session.

As details emerge about Lux Living’s legal battles and complaints from its St. Louis property residents, Port Authority members gave a nod to the embattled developer. But one council member isn’t convinced.

St. Louis singer-songwriter Joanna Serenko will play songs from “Best of Me” at Blue Strawberry on May 19.

Two initiatives proposing amendments to the Missouri Constitution were submitted Sunday. If each has sufficient signatures, they will likely be on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Abortion-rights activists say their best hope to roll back a ban if Roe v. Wade is overturned could be at the federal level.

When a Port Authority of Kansas City committee meets Monday afternoon to discuss a major proposed apartment project at Berkley Riverfront, its members may have to consider whether the project’s developer was forthcoming in disclosures about its past.

Missouri legislators will head back to Jefferson City this week for the final days of the 2022 session.