Missouri’s over $2 billion Improve I-70 Project that will add a third lane and connect St. Louis to Kansas City is in full swing. Eric Kopinski, MoDOT’s Improve I-70 Project Director, told Missourinet what travel will look like in the construction areas this summer.
On Tuesday, the Missouri Senate passed Bill 68. The bill requires Missouri schools to have a policy restricting students’ use of phones during the school day.
The Missouri Senate on Thursday approved House Joint Resolution 73, which will put a near-total ban on abortion on the ballot in the November 2026 general election.
Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban
Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state's the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday.
Feeding America's latest Map the Meal Gap study revealed a significant increase in food insecurity at both national and local levels. In southeast Missouri, 22.4% of children live
Some legislators in both chambers objected to the move since the House unexpectedly failed to pass the part of the budget funding capital improvement projects across the state last week.
CARROLLTON, Mo. (KCTV) - Charges have been filed against a Missouri man who admitted he attacked a beloved pet dog with a hammer and left it with serious head injuries. Carroll County, Missouri, Circuit Court records filed on Wednesday, May 7, indicate ...
The final hours of the 2025 legislative session are ticking down, and a plan to help fund stadium upgrades for Kansas City sports teams is at the center of a power struggle in the General Assembly. The Missouri House has approved the incentives.
According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, approximately 19,000 people are released from prison every year. For Paige Spears, it took 37 years to walk free.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday unveiled a new proposal aimed at keeping both the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in Missouri. The proposed “Show Me Sports Investment Act” would allow professional sports teams to access state funding for stadium development through a new bonding mechanism.
A Republican known as Kit, he was the state’s youngest governor. When he retired from Congress after four terms, he said he didn’t want to be the state’s oldest senator.
Missouri’s long-awaited counteroffer to the STAR Bonds package Kansas put together in hopes of luring the Chiefs or Royals across the state line passed Tuesday morning in the House of Representatives.
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe designated the city of Raymore a Missouri Blue Shield community. Kehoe created the Blue Shield Program in January 2025 through Executive Order 25-03.
As part of a wide-ranging package of public school policy changes, the phone ban would allow school districts to craft their own cellphone policies. But, those policies must prohibit usage from the opening to closing bell.
Missouri’s system for providing legal representation to families ensnared in the foster care system is highly decentralized and has little state oversight. The result is that some parents go without legal help at all,
The bill includes a provision prohibiting discrimination against natural Black hairstyles. But many House Democrats argue it also contains language that could protect campus student groups that engage in discriminatory behavior.
Less than two decades after its last major revision, Missouri’s public school funding formula is headed for a rewrite. A newly created 16-member Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force appointed by Gov.
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows hunters checked 46,562 birds during this year’s spring turkey hunting season. Missouri Department of Agriculture Wild Turkey Biologist Nik Oakley said great production in 2023 resulted in a large population of gobblers this year and led to an 8% increase in the overall harvest compared to
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey alleges in a lawsuit Monday that one of the utility companies involved in last month’s deadly gas pipeline explosion violated state law.
A family is suing the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, claiming snowy roads in January contributed to a car crash that killed their loved one.
