The Missouri Botanical Garden will have its first woman president next year. Kate Grumke sat down with Dr. Lucia Lohmann to learn why she wanted to come back to the Garden and to St. Louis.

Drug companies already have sent 100 million dollars to Missouri to settle lawsuits for their role in the opioid crisis, and the state is set to get hundreds of millions more. St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Fentem reports on what communities are doing with the massive payout.

Election Day is behind us, but we'll look at the issues our reporters are still tracking, and how the outcome of the vote is starting to play out. Plus - St. Louis Art Museum is now showing an exhibition of African art that includes a wider selection than museum goers typically see. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin reports on its narrative power.

Missouri ended up voting for Republican candidates on Tuesday — while legalizing abortion. What the causes and candidates that emerged victorious tell us, how people impacted by these decisions are reacting, and what happens next.

It’s Election Day. We have the important reminders and updates on this last day of voting, and a story on the first voting experience for students at a local school, looking to elect their new mascot. Plus, indulge in a few minutes of some truly old fashioned alternative programming, courtesy of a couple in Rolla—for whom using a manual typewriter is a multi-sensory experience.

Quincy officials are itching to depart with its sole airline provider, citing unmet promises and unreliable service.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Marissanne Lewis-Thompson reports on a possible fresh start for the city and Quincy Regional Airport.

A Midwest Newsroom investigation looks at outside money trying to influence ballot initiatives and Madison County is one of several downstate counties voting on exploring leaving Illinois.

As trick-or-treaters get their costumes ready, scientists are working to save a spooky native bug whose numbers have plummeted. St. Louis Public Radio's Kate Grumke reports.

Missouri was the first state in the country to ban most abortions after the fall of Roe v. Wade. But next week, voters will decide whether to place abortion rights protections in the state constitution. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum has more on the high stakes over Missouri’s Amendment 3.

Missouri’s U.S. Senate race between Democrat Lucas Kunce and Republican incumbent Josh Hawley is arguably the most competitive, and combative, statewide contest this year. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum reports, Kunce and Hawley are pitching strikingly different messages in the campaign’s final stretch.