Dalton Ezell is a small town family man from Southeast Missouri. He spent several years in the aluminum industry before ...

Joplin officials recently passed an ordinance banning the practice after noticing out-of-state vehicles dropping off homeless ...

Whether you’re smelting or farming, you’re fighting the same battle for affordable energy, steady pay and a future worth passing on.

Missouri doctors warn new CDC recommendations that parents wait to vaccinate newborns against Hepatitis B could create more ...

The Independent has documented a pattern of well-connected groups flooding the microbusiness lottery by recruiting people to ...

The USDA has approved Missouri's request to restrict the use of food stamps for the purchase of some junk food items.

Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.

The Missouri State Board of Education approved legislative priorities that appear to show support for open enrollment.

A federal judge Monday refused to back Missouri’s Republican leaders efforts to block a statewide vote on a gerrymandered ...

A Texas developer wants to revive the Plaza. But the plan could come at a massive cost for Kansas City schools and other ...

A Missouri appeals court found the ballot language for a proposed amendment to ban abortion failed to state it would repeal ...

The houses have emerged in a part of the state where treatment and services for people battling substance use disorders are ...