Kavahn Mansouri
Economic Development Reporter, St. Louis Public RadioKavahn Mansouri covers economic development, housing and business at St. Louis Public Radio.
He joined the station after working as an investigative reporter for NPR’s Midwest Newsroom for 3.5 years. There, he investigated housing, policing, immigration and more as a founding member of the NPR regional hub. Before that, he was a Government Accountability Reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat and a general assignment reporter at the Washington Missourian.
A native of St. Louis, Mansouri graduated from Webster University in 2016. He started reporting at 15 years old, working on the high school newspaper at Rockwood Summit. In his free time, he enjoys tabletop gaming and exploring St. Louis with his wife, Megan.
You can reach him via email at kmansouri@stlpr.org or on Bluesky.
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For the past 25 years, the Midwest Innocence Project has worked at no cost to free incarcerated individuals who believe they were wrongfully convicted of crimes in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. -
One week after a controversial vote to approve rules for a CRG Clayco data center, anti-data center candidates ousted half of the Festus City Council. -
Missouri and other states in the Midwest saw growth over the past year, according to U.S. census data, but declining immigration may bring change to Missouri. -
Sen. Josh Hawley says his bill will track layoffs attributed to replacing workers with AI. A St. Louis expert says "the great AI replacement" could lead to millions of people losing their jobs. -
Toyota announces Missouri plant will get $57 million investment and more jobs as part of hybrid pushCarmaker Toyota announced it will add 57 jobs invest in a new production line at its factory in Troy, Missouri, in order to increase capacity for hybrid cars. -
After residents in St. Charles protested a secretive data center proposal, developer CRG is eyeing Festus, Missouri, as a site for future sites. It's not clear what tax incentives or exemptions the data centers could receive, would would lessen their economic benefit. -
As officials in Missouri try to attract data center proposals from companies, pushback grows in communities where the projects are planned. One expert says the economic benefit isn't crystal clear — especially if local governments give them tax breaks. -
Dorian Johnson died of injuries sustained during a shooting Sunday morning on Abaco Court, less than a mile from where a police officer killed Michael Brown in 2014. -
St. Charles officials signed nondisclosure agreements as they considered a proposed data center project in their city. The agreements were with a company with links to Google. Protests from residents stopped the deal, however. -
Honesty Bishop was attacked by her cellmate. Missouri prison officials deemed her sexually active and kept her in isolation for over six years.
