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Growing up disconnected from her Korean heritage, adoptee Jamie Currier struggled with her cultural identity. Years later, Currier would find an unexpected avenue that would help her embrace her Korean heritage — a battle with breast cancer.

Organizers of the third Counterpublic art exhibition placed sculptures, multi-media installations and other works of art in public spaces around St. Louis. The work will stay on view into December. Curators organize the sprawling show every three years. They say it’s dedicated to reimagining the possibilities of art.

Lawmakers passed SB 1421 this year, a multifaceted public safety bill. Within the legislation was a statute that automated the expungement process for certain drug offenses. Here’s what to know about Missouri’s drug offense expungement, which begins in January.

Hoping to get relief from increasingly astronomical licensing fees, the professional theater company in Rolla is hoping a new work based on a classic character will attract an audience, be financially sustainable and lead to great performances.

As DNA mapping becomes more advanced and genetic research becomes more accessible, conversations about what it means to share genetic data become more important. But for Black people in the United States, sharing and studying genetic data comes with a lot of baggage. St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Fentem reports on a St. Louis art show that focuses on the intersection of race and genetics.

Juan Cox never intended to become chief of the department and its 12-hundred employees, but says every time he planned to retire, he got promoted.

Despite recommendations from health professionals, some pharmacies began promoting vaccinations well ahead of the flu season this year.

Retiring Ritenour School District Superintendent Chris Kilbride says school funding is among the biggest challenges he’s faced.

Data centers play a prominent role in Ameren's 20 year plan, and renewable energy advocates are skeptical.

Missouri produces the third-most beef cattle in the country, and it also grows a lot of corn and soybeans. That diversity has traditionally been a buffer against a bad year in any one sector. But diesel prices have soared in recent weeks, and they affect all farming sectors.

Most school buses run on diesel fuel…which just hit another record price. In Illinois, it’s just one of several factors pushing school transportation costs to what some say is a crisis level.

A market run by kids for kids is paving the way for young entrepreneurs to bring their small businesses to customers in the Metro East and St. Louis.

As large-scale data center proposals pop up around St. Louis, one of the biggest concerns among residents is noise. St. Louis University Professor Kasey Fowler-Finn studies sound and especially low frequency noise like what comes from data centers. She sat down with St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke to talk about why these projects are so loud.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen was a popular mid-century Catholic leader and televangelist from outside of Peoria. The Vatican has now certified a miracle in Sheen’s name – and his Beatification Ceremony is happening in St. Louis tomorrow. Why thousands are making the pilgrimage to The Dome for the event, and the influence Fulton Sheen’s had on modern Catholics.

Some Midwest states have little to no regulations of Flock Safety cameras or other automated license plate readers. As surveillance companies face bipartisan backlash, that is likely to change during the next legislative session.

As a Black teen joining the punk rock scene in a predominantly white Maryland suburb, G’Ra Asim was sometimes an outsider among the outsiders. His parents moved east from St. Louis when he was 9. Asim is now a creative writing professor at Washington University, and plays guitar in two bands. In a new book of essays, he charts his path through 21st-century romance and pop culture.

Route 66 turns 100 this year. One of the prominent features on the mother road that made car travel from Chicago to California possible was the small motels people would stop at along the way. Most of them are long gone, but one of them has been rescued, and is back open. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jonathan Ahl takes us to the Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan.

Since the St. Louis band Foxing went on hiatus, Conor Murphy has focused on Smidley, and they have new album with new inspiration.

There's a headstone in the central Illinois town of El Paso for the first Black man to cast a ballot in the state, but historians aren't sure if that's where David Strother is actually buried.

Since Missouri streamlined enrollment in its full-time virtual learning program for K-through-12 students following the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment has quadrupled. Growth in demand for online education comes at a time when more teachers appear frustrated with being in a classroom.

One of the world’s great migrations has begun. The eastern monarch butterfly is flying south, through the central U.S., to overwinter in Mexico. A decade ago, a federal task force laid out a plan to help monarchs along their journey by returning roadsides to native habitat, including Interstate 35 that goes through part of Missouri. Harvest Public Media’s Rachel Cramer explores what happened to th...

The Black Rep is celebrating 50 years. Founder and producing director Ron Himes says each season he’s just surviving, but the theater’s mission to expose communities to Black stories will be its continued legacy. St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson takes us behind the scenes of one of the largest African American professional theater companies in the country.

St. Louis Development Corporation CEO Stephen Westbrooks says for downtown St. Louis to feel like a neighborhood, it needs nearly double its current population. He says new incentives can get it there.

Missouri's congressional map is in turmoil following contradictory orders from a U.S. Supreme Court justice and a federal judge in St. Louis.

For most people, Walt Disney's name evokes cartoons, castles and the sprawling theme parks in California and Florida. But for a group of students from Western Michigan University, understanding Disney's imagination meant starting somewhere much smaller: a town of roughly 2,000 people in north-central Missouri.