The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a law barring "explicit sexual content" from school libraries.

Backers of a Missouri redistricting referendum asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene again in the fight over which map to ...

The case revisits the grading process of marijuana facility licenses in 2019, which the state auditor found to have erratic ...

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has opened a new front in the fight over medication abortion, pushing legislation to revoke federal approval of mifepristone, urging the Justice Department to investigate its ...

Melanie Pierce works with many pregnant women who know they’ll have a long drive ahead of them when labor starts. One of her jobs as a doula living in Mansfield, Missouri, is helping families answer a ...

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School districts around Kansas City know it’s possible, maybe even likely, that Missouri’s governor and lawmakers will choose to not fully fund public schools next year. The state’s foundation formula ...

The Missouri State Board of Education declined Tuesday to seek the roughly $300 million increase needed to fully fund the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court had barely settled the immediate question of which congressional map is legally in effect before some Republicans began looking ahead to drawing another one. But two ...

Federal prosecutors say Siddharth Jawahar agreed to pay Axiom Strategies to secure a favorable newspaper article and a letter ...

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins wants the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to remove a redistricting referendum from the ...

Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel hosted every president from Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. Harry Truman ran much of his ...