Austin Huguelet

5 days ago | stltoday.com | Austin Huguelet

ST. LOUIS — The region’s sewer authority has approved a $1 million outlay to cover fixes on a collapsed line that created a big hole in a prominent street on the near North Side last month. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s board of trustees approved the contract with Eureka-based Gershenson Construction Co., which handled repairs to the century-old sewer as well as the broken patch of Cass Avenue between 17th and 18th streets.

6 days ago | stltoday.com | Austin Huguelet

ST. LOUIS — Former Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, after a big re-election loss last month, is calling out city voters for turning their backs on Black women in power. In an interview with St. Louis Public Radio published Thursday, she said South Side white voters abandoned her for Mayor Cara Spencer, a white woman, because of race. She said North Side Black voters had unrealistic expectations of her.

6 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Austin Huguelet

Share Alderman Rasheen Aldridge, whose 14th Ward covers the condemned buildings, said too many ST. LOUIS — The city’s building safety chief says two historic vacant buildings north of downtown need to be demolished in the wake of a damaging fire over the weekend. Building Commissioner Ed Ware said Wednesday that the buildings, owned by controversial developer Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration, sustained considerable damage in the blaze, and may be starting to collapse.

6 days ago | stltoday.com | Austin Huguelet

ST. LOUIS — The city’s building safety chief says two historic vacant buildings north of downtown need to be demolished in the wake of a damaging fire over the weekend. Building Commissioner Ed Ware said Wednesday that the buildings, owned by controversial developer Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration, sustained considerable damage in the blaze, and may be starting to collapse. He said the city couldn’t abide that with people living in apartments just across the street.

1 week ago | stltoday.com | Austin Huguelet

ST. LOUIS — Linda Lockhart, a former Post-Dispatch editor and longtime local journalist, died Sunday from complications of cancer. She was 72. Those who knew her recalled Lockhart as a rigorous wordsmith, a strong advocate for Black journalists, and a passionate storyteller. “She was an absolute force,” said her daughter, Rachel Seward, of St. Louis. “She was always working so hard to make wherever she was better.”Lockhart was born in St. Louis on Aug.