The theater department at Joplin High School returns this week with its annual festival of student-directed one-act plays, and this year for the first time, each show has also been written by its director.

Public hearings on several zoning requests will be held Monday night by the Joplin City Council.

Swimming at Joplin city pools would be more expensive this year under admission price increases proposed for City Council approval at its meeting Monday night.

In celebration of Thank a Farmer Week, volunteers, staff and members of the Missouri Farm Bureau will donate food on Tuesday to Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Four States.

The MSSU Harrison and June Kash International Film Society and Joplin’s Bookhouse Cinema have teamed up to present a series of internationally acclaimed films about epic journeys for the “On the Road” film festival.

The following road and bridge projects are underway:

The Joplin Globe publishes summaries of routine and follow-up inspections performed by the Joplin Health Department.

The following are five of the top stories published in the Globe from Jan. 28 through Feb. 1. In case you missed them, here’s a recap:

The Joplin Globe took home more than a dozen awards, including two first-place awards, in the 2018 Missouri Associated Press Media Editors contest, the winners of which were announced Thursday.

On a light day, more than 100 people fill the second floor hallway inside the Jasper County courts building in Joplin as they await a hearing.