Missouri child welfare workers and courts would be required to use the same standards to determine when children are unsafe and what must change before they can return home under draft legislation ...

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

Four media organizations, including the Missouri Broadcasters Association and the Missouri Press Association, have filed a ...

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

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

Missouri interim Commissioner of Education Stacey Preis resigned Tuesday after just four months on the job amid speculation she was about to be fired. Speaking to reporters while the State Board of ...

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

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.

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 ...