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Eckerts Family Farms is an annual tradition for thousands of families in the St. Louis region, with acres of apples and pumpkins to choose from.

The number of new hospital admissions for COVID-19 in the St. Louis area approached a record on Saturday, the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri agency that handles unemployment claims saw its staffing slashed by nearly 40% in recent years before this spring's surge in claims amid the coronavirus pandemic strained the system.

Illinois health officials on Saturday reported a one-day record for new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, adding 6,161 individual cases to the state total.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been reluctant to support a federal mask mandate.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's coronavirus diagnoses came about a week after he visited a state office building despite being warned about an outbreak among workers, emails show.

The COVID-19 Regional Response Team donated cleaning supplies to local organizations in an attempt to fill the gap in personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages.

As Illinois' seven-day COVID-19 positivity rate continues to rise, bar and restaurant owners in the Metro East are anxiously monitoring the latest numbers and hoping they start to move back downward to prevent a move back to tighter restrictions. 

The St. Louis region needs to "come together" to address its surging coronavirus numbers, as confirmed cases increased in nearly every metro county this past week, Dr. Alex Garza with the St. Louis Pandemic Task Force said Friday.

The tests are set up to be self-administered by swiping your saliva rather than going to get a nasal swab and waiting in long lines. 

Kansas City police are investigating an aggravated assault case where a man pulled a gun on a woman over a dispute about mask wearing.

If 95% of Americans wore masks in public, more than 100,000 lives could be saved from Covid-19 through February, a new modeling study suggests.

Researchers said the pandemic has "jolted the global pharmaceutical market at all levels and production points."

WASHINGTON (AP) — FDA approves remdesivir, the first drug for treating COVID-19.

The NHL won't take it outside and open 2021 with the Winter Classic in Minnesota but still hopes to get the hockey season going around the start of the new year.

News 4 is tracking a COVID-19 outbreak within the Sullivan School District.

COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on a St. Ann family, killing three family members and sickening five others.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police officers in St. Louis will soon be wearing body cameras.

(CNN) -- Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wrote Wednesday that mask wearing is not a "partisan or cultural symbol," urging Americans to wear one to guard against the coronavirus.

A volunteer in Brazil's trial of AstraZeneca's experimental coronavirus vaccine has died, the Brazilian health agency Anvisa announced on Wednesday

There is a "building distrust" in public health agencies as the coronavirus pandemic resurges in large parts of the United States, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's leading infectious disease official, in a recent interview.

The most advanced trials for coronavirus vaccines cannot tell researchers if the shots will save lives, or even if they'll prevent serious disease, a drug development expert pointed out Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials Wednesday redefined what counts as close contact with someone with COVID-19 to include briefer but repeated encounters.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Health care workers will be the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine when one is approved for use and becomes available in Missouri, according to the state’s draft plan submitted to federal authorities.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Nearly $1.5 million is coming to the St. Louis Area Foodbank, Gov. Mike Parson announced Wednesday.

(CNN) -- Older people, women and those with a wide range of symptoms in the first week of their illness appear to be most likely to develop "long Covid," according to a preprint paper posted online by researchers at King's College London on Wednesday.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) -- Ameren is setting aside $500,000 to help Missouri families who need help paying off their energy bills.

Wednesday's new cases reached 4,342 as the state topped more than 355,0000 cases. 

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Ten more inmates at the jail in St. Louis County have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the number of current detainees with the coronavirus to 43.