A sweeping panorama of Mercy Park with its spraying fountains and hilltop pavilion awaits an audience at Joplin’s new $5.2 million senior center.

With voters making Oklahoma the 30th state in the nation to legalize medical marijuana last Tuesday, advocacy groups in Missouri are hoping to ride the wave into the November election.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief ethics official says he is pushing for a series of independent investigations into Scott Pruitt’s actions as administrator of the federal agency.

What is your first thought when someone mentions the frontier? Often our thoughts are colored by television and movies with images of a town on the wind-swept plains. Yet Southwest Missouri was the frontier in the 1830s and 1840s.

Here’s a prediction for you: The intersection at 15th and Main streets will get a major boost in appearance in connection with the remodeling of an old commercial storefront. Of course, it’s not much of a prediction if you have…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will more than double the amount of water released into the Missouri River from the river’s lower-most dam over the coming weeks.

WEBB CITY, Mo. — Empty Bowls 2.0 is underway now through Saturday, July 14, at area locations in support of the WIC program at the Webb City Farmers Market.

People around Missouri have gathered at city centers and town squares to protest the Trump administration’s one-time policy of separating immigrant children from parents at the U.S. border.

Quiet reflection, not bullhorns and chants, was seen at a rally to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies in southwestern Kansas.