Missouri Democrats are confident of gains heading into the election but Republicans have an abundance of cash for defense.

Missouri child welfare workers and courts would be required to use the same standards to determine when children are unsafe and what must change before they can return home under draft legislation ...

When I was pregnant, my ex-husband pinned me against a wall. I was afraid he would kill me. I survived that violence. I also ...

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

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.

Over five consecutive elections from 1974 through 1982, Missouri Democrats elected supermajorities — more than two-thirds of ...

Missouri is headed toward a potentially painful budget reckoning as state spending continues to outpace revenue growth. The ...

A day after the surprise resignation of Missouri’s interim commissioner of education, the State Board of Education announced a new interim leader for the state’s public school oversight agency. Lisa ...

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

Missouri regulators say the state doesn’t need to issue more licenses to grow, manufacture or sell marijuana because the legal cannabis market is meeting consumer demand. But the statewide study ...

For pregnant women living north of Interstate 70 in central Missouri, there weren’t many places to deliver a baby. Fitzgibbon ...