Teens

Students, teachers and administrators are learning to adapt this school year after Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed legislation in July that restricted the use of electronic personal devices during the school day.

The rise in popularity of vapes, e-cigarettes and smokeless products risks wiping out progress anti-smoking advocates have made among young people, anti-smoking advocates say.

With its recent expansion to public high schools in St. Louis and University City, Show Me the World is raising money to support more than 100 students throughout the region.

The Missouri Hospital Association found that COVID-19 vaccinations for Missouri teens are slowing down, just one month after the Pfizer vaccine became available for kids ages 12 to 15.

Journalist Masuma Ahuja discusses her book "Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices" on "St. Louis on the Air." The book includes excerpts from 30 girls' diaries, including a teenager in the suburbs of St. Louis.

Gun-related suicides among young adults in Missouri had been declining since at least 1999, according to a new analysis from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. But after the state eliminated its permit-to-purchase requirement in 2007, firearm suicide rates among adults ages 19 to 24 jumped by nearly 22%.

Black teenagers in the U.S. are attempting suicide more often — even as suicide attempts have dropped for teens of other racial groups.Suicide is the…

White, upper-middle-class Americans have held the reins of the mainstream conservation movement for decades — and some say change is long overdue.A small…

A recent study of American teenagers showed a big jump in nicotine vaping among young people in 2018. Even as many steer clear of other substance-related…

Updated Sept. 13 at 3:50 p.m., to include information from Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony.Four years after protests rocked Ferguson, a nonprofit is…