Given the frequency of mass shootings elsewhere, employees at the Ozark Center’s Hope Spring group spent an hour or so of their day on Tuesday learning how to respond if someone bursts into their workplace and starts shooting.

Aside from the emergency number 911, another lifesaving number that you may want to memorize is 988.

Joplin’s seventh fire station is one of the projects 2023 will bring as the city pushes forward on more than three dozen initiatives and building plans for parks, streets, stormwater drainage, trails and other city improvements.

Today in the Globe newsroom we looked into a new emergency number.

A new apparel store, Forever Amphibian, has opened in the storefront formerly occupied by The Buckle in Northpark Mall. A grand opening is underway.

Joplin’s park system has been its pride and joy since the beginning of the 20th century. In the first decade its crown jewel was Cunningham Park. This park has a long and varied history as the vision of the purpose…

NEOSHO, Mo. — Crowder College choral music instructor Becky Shaw will hold open auditions for fourth- and fifth-grade students in the area to participate in the newly formed Crowder College Regional Children’s Choir.

I was recently out on a date with my special sweetie enjoying a portobello burger and horiatiki salad at Mythos. We were seated close to a private room that had a group meeting going on. The glass has been frosted…

The next edition of the “Newsmakers” television interview program will feature interviews with members of the St. Louis Cardinals who recently visited Missouri Southern State University as part of the annual Cardinals Caravan.

“Whether the weather be fine, whether the weather be not;