Kansas State University will use a $1 million gift to create at least 30 matching scholarships as part of the university’s Family Scholarship Program.

Part of Interstate 85 in North Carolina has been named for civil rights historian John Hope Franklin.

The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline and the project’s opponents are asking Nebraska regulators to clarify their recent decision to approve an alternative pipeline route through the state.

The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline and the project’s opponents are asking Nebraska regulators to clarify their recent decision to approve an alternative pipeline route through the state.

The Joplin Community Clinic will participate for the first time today in Giving Tuesday, and it’s doing so in a big way.

    A nonprofit public watchdog is suing Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter for refusing to release a special audit into criminal allegations connected to the state’s effort to clean up heavily polluted communities in the Tar Creek area of northwest Oklahoma.                Lead pollution there has long been blamed on waste left by mining operations decades ago.      Washington, D.C.-based Campaign for Accou…

Hundreds stood outside Monday night, eagerly waiting to see the annual Christmas displays in the windows of Joplin City Hall.

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — An investigator testified Monday that Michael W. Jones slipped up during an interview the day after the beating death of his roommate, Timothy A. Goodman.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A Washington, D.C., organization has filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma officials demanding the release of public information affiliated with corruption allegations against the management of the Tar Creek reclamation site near what was the town of Picher.

Missouri’s sitting U.S. senators have thrown their weight behind the city of Joplin’s request for a deadline extension on several federally funded tornado recovery projects.