New funding will expand a program that shares childcare costs among employers, families and the state. But finding available ...

To cut costs, Kansas City Council moved to retrofit the temporary city jail built for the World Cup instead of building a new ...

Missouri voters will see a list of anywhere from four to nearly a dozen judges on the ballot. How do you know whether they should be retained?

The roughly 150 fixed license plate readers are part of a network also mounted in parks and on municipal buildings, KCK ...

The Missouri legislature passed an estimated $50.7 billion budget on Wednesday, sending the proposal to Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk. The final product contained major changes from the House’s version of ...

Karrie Krause had to take out a bank loan to pay off a hospital bill from 2022. (Suzanne King/The Beacon) In December 2022, a ...

Kansas City’s latest changeup in a yearslong effort to build a permanent municipal jail involves a $120 million retrofit of ...

Where incumbent Josh Hawley and opponents Lucas Kunce, Jared Young and Nathan Kline stand on issues ahead of Nov. 5 Election Day for U.S. Senate in Missouri. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is on the Nov. 5 ...

Top, from left: Democratic Jackson County executive candidates Stacy Lake, Ryan Meyer and Holmes Osborne. Bottom, from left: Bill Baird, Dan Tarwater and Manny Abarca. (Provided photos) For the first ...

Gov. Mike Kehoe speaks at an election night event on Nov. 5, 2024. Kehoe signed into law Missouri's redistricting plan on Sept. 28, 2025. The map was passed by both chambers of the state legislature ...

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