St. Louis City Mayor Tishaura Jones went over to the Missouri state capitol Jefferson City Wednesday to testify against state control of the city’s police department.

Tishaura Jones warns lawmakers that a takeover would undermine city’s progress on crime. But Gov. Mike Kehoe and Republican lawmakers are pushing for state control.

“We will follow the Civil Service regulations to ensure accountability by staff,” Streets Department Director Betherny Williams said. Officials concede that the city initially failed to grasp the gravity of the record-breaking storm, and took too long to abandon policy of let…

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones released the “State of Public Safety 2025″ report on Wednesday. The report states that the City of St. Louis has had the lowest number of homicides since 2013 and highlights the approach that has led to the decrease.

The St. Louis mayor and business group Greater St. Louis Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a compromise on how to spend funds from the settlement of the 2017 Rams litigation.

A seven percent pay raise is on the way to St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers in an effort to help with staffing shortages. The negotiations were voted on and approved by the

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is headed to Washington, D.C., Thursday for a three-day trip that involves U.S. Conference of Mayors and campaign events.

The compromise provides a plan to spend all of that money, which will remain in interest-bearing accounts until it is expended.

ST. LOUIS - This week, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier, and Alderwoman Pamela Boyd, along with support from Greater St. Louis,

Comptroller Darlene Green said she'd approve an emergency expenditure to get contractors to clear the streets before the city has its next deep freeze temperatures.

ST. LOUIS - Mayor Tishaura Jones will be in Jefferson City, Mo., on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, to testify against SB44 (Fitzwater), SB52 (Schroer) and HB49

If the dogs are declared dangerous, the owner has 35 days to comply with a set of regulations allowing the animals to be returned, or surrender them immediately. Reports on use-of-force at St. Louis jails show that, despite 1,700 incidents, just nine resulted in injury. And the city hasn't reported a single injury since 2019.