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SIBA Skilled Trades Summer Camp introduces high school students to construction careers through hands-on training

O’FALLON, IL – More than 20 high school students spent the week of July 20-24, 2026, exploring rewarding careers in the construction trades during the Southern Illinois Builders Association (SIBA) Skilled Trades Summer Camp. The immersive, five-day program gave students the opportunity to visit union apprenticeship training centers and experience the work of skilled trades

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Public comment sought on proposed Southwest Connector

SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS – The Illinois Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to discuss the Southwest Connector Planning and Environmental Linkages study, which is evaluating proposed improvements from just south of Waterloo to just north of Murphysboro through Monroe, Randolph, Perry and Jackson counties. The meeting will be held:   Thursday, Aug. 20 4-7 p.m.

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Protecting America’s tax-exempt Sector from foreign influence

By Jason Smith, member of Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. – Too often these days, when Missourians turn on the television, they see images from our cities of protestors flooding the streets, rioters damaging buildings, or masked thugs burning the American flag and waving a Palestinian one. So many Missourians I talk to wonder how these images

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MSHP reports arrests

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest report of arrests.   Among those listed as arrested:   47-year-old Wesley B. Pinson of Festus at 8:01 p.m. Saturday in Ste. Genevieve County on a patrol charge of driving wile intoxicated. He was taken to the Ste. Genevieve County Jail on a

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Missouri Geological Survey awarded USGS grant to study landslides 

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Geological Survey, a division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, will identify and map the location of historic landslides in southeastern Missouri through a grant recently awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The study area will be along the Interstate 55 corridor through the Benton Hills area of Scott

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