St. Louis' emergency management commissioner has been placed on administrative leave, the mayor said, after tornado sirens failed to be activated ahead of Friday's storm.

ST. LOUIS—Forest Park bore the brute force of an EF-3 tornado on May 16, leading to eye-widening damage throughout its 1,300 acres of land. Within Forest Park, the Saint Louis Zoo sustained ...

Mom leads 4 kids into primate house during St. Louis tornado–and it may have saved them "You need to know the zoo no longer looks like the zoo that we know and love," mom Ashleigh Schroeder said ...

The St. Louis Zoo was right outside the path of an EF-3 tornado and managed to keep hundreds of animals, insects, reptiles and 10,000 visitors safe.