Schisms between GOP leadership and more conservative members have been an ongoing storyline in recent legislative history.

The monarch butterfly population continues to shrink due to factors such as climate change. People working to help the ...

Students across Kansas and Missouri have not been in school since Dec. 21, as road conditions and cold made it too risky to ...

In our series “Unhoused/Unschooled,” The Midwest Newsroom and its regional partners explored the complicated federal system ...

The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white ...

For the first time since 2018, Missouri lawmakers will work with a new governor. While outgoing Gov. Mike Parson pushed a ...

Kansas City trash and recycling pickup has been canceled because of last weekend’s snow and ice. While crews focus on ...

Big fights on issues like transgender health care access will be repeated again this session as Republicans lead with a ...

Missouri Department of Secondary and Elementary Education officials said the data signals a turning point in a teacher ...

The Great Bend, Kansas, native is currently serving his second term as the state's top election official. If elected in 2026, ...

Lee's Summit, won over the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats for the top leadership role in the Missouri House. Conservative state Rep. Justin Sparks only got 10 votes in his long-shot bid.

Urban and suburban school districts may have a funding and staffing edge when it comes to implementing laws to support ...