A day after the resignation of Missouri’s interim commissioner of education, the State Board of Education announced a new interim leader.

After Missouri banned nearly all abortions in 2022, Valerie Weaver began noticing a troubling change in some of the pregnant patients she cared for in Kansas City. They were arriving to her sicker.

Missouri Republicans have spent more than $300,000 on television advertising in recent days to keep a northwest Missouri seat ...

Democrats have gained ground statewide, but only one of Missouri’s eight U.S. House races has attracted significant campaign ...

A state study found no need for more marijuana licenses, but researchers lacked the ownership data needed to fully assess ...

Republicans are defending narrowly won suburban seats as Democrats look for signs of an opening in rural Missouri ...

Missouri is headed toward a potentially painful budget reckoning as state spending continues to outpace revenue growth. The ...

Missouri Amendment 6 would sharply limit lawmakers’ power to change voter-approved laws and restrict changes to the ...

For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America ...

Six years ago, when we launched The Missouri Independent, I made what was probably a pretty lousy sales pitch. Don’t trust us ...