Land Reutilization News Today

An overgrown thicket of thorny branches is swallowing up a fence off East 236th Street, and the man on the other side of the fence has had enough of the pestering plants.

A historic north St. Louis church is set to be demolished, a decision that comes about a week after it caught fire for the third time in two years.

Johnel Langerston came to College Hill to run a basketball camp. He’s become a rehabber in a neighborhood with few of them.

“North County deserves to have long-neglected properties redeveloped,” a spokesman for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said.

City workers checked the site on Wednesday, but plans to clean up the trash were put on hold until Monday.

The firefighter was treated at the scene, had some "bumps and bruises" and was back to work shortly after the fall, said St. Louis fire Capt. Garon Mosby.

Lucas, Wood and Sandusky counties have each received grants designed to help local communities clean up dozens of contaminated properties.

After firefighter Ben Polson died while battling a fire in north St. Louis, the fire department is renewing efforts to rate the structural integrity of vacant homes.

A coalition committed to reducing vacant property in the city of St. Louis is backing a bill with a number of seemingly small legislative fixes that could have a big impact.

SALINEVILLE — The Salineville Fire Department urges residents to adhere to the statewide spring open burn ban that goes into effect every day from March until