A day after the resignation of Missouri’s interim commissioner of education, the State Board of Education announced a new interim leader.

After Missouri banned nearly all abortions in 2022, Valerie Weaver began noticing a troubling change in some of the pregnant patients she cared for in Kansas City. They were arriving to her sicker.

A state study found no need for more marijuana licenses, but researchers lacked the ownership data needed to fully assess ...

Missouri Republicans have spent more than $300,000 on television advertising in recent days to keep a northwest Missouri seat ...

Democrats have gained ground statewide, but only one of Missouri’s eight U.S. House races has attracted significant campaign ...

Six years ago, when we launched The Missouri Independent, I made what was probably a pretty lousy sales pitch. Don’t trust us ...

For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America ...

A new Missouri-based nonprofit has dropped $2.9 million into a campaign hoping to reinstate an abortion ban. Her Health Her Future Missouri was incorporated in September and is now the top donor to ...

When MyPillow founder Mike Lindell visited the Missouri Capitol in January 2023, the conversation was focused on election security. Lindell, a Donald Trump ally who has repeatedly promoted false ...