Senate Majority Leader Cindy O'Laughlin, R-Shelbina, speaks to reporters Jan. 23 after members of the Missouri Freedom Caucus ...

As of last week, the House and Senate budget proposals are about $2 billion apart. Among items cut by the House is a nearly $53 million plan to redevelop the mostly abandoned Missouri State ...

The Missouri Senate returned to session Tuesday to discuss routine bills after a heated debate on Monday about the state budget.

Meatpacking sludge storage lagoons that have drawn the ire of rural neighbors because of their foul stench would face ...

Under protest by members of the far-right Missouri Freedom Caucus, the upper chamber adjourned without taking up any bills. But a state constitutional deadline is coming on Friday, a deadline that's ...

Supporters of abortion rights Friday delivered 380,000 signatures on an initiative petition to enshrine reproductive rights in the Missouri Constitution. If there are enough valid signatures in six of ...

A constitutional deadline is looming over the General Assembly to pass a budget by the end of this week but before that, senators must renew a multi-billion-dollar tax.

Gov. Mike Parson signed two bills into law, increasing Missouri teacher pay to $40,000 annually and allowing charter schools to expand into Missouri.

In a legislative session filled with filibusters, ethics investigations and hyperbole, it’s unusual the first non-appropriations bill to be signed by Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson ...

Mike Parson on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping education bill requiring voters to decide whether large school districts can shift to four-day school weeks and expanding a scholarship program for ...

Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed Senate Bill 727 and House Bill 2287 into law, increasing the baseline teacher pay to at least $40,000.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate unanimously endorsed a plan Tuesday to give the state auditor more power to investigate local governments. Under a plan backed by Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, a ...