KBIA Newscast

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• U.S. Rep. Jason Smith's first piece of legislation in Washington
• Kansas City loses thousands of jobs over past decade
• Gov. Nixon contemplates cash-advance bill

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Low achieving Missouri schools could get a boost from the federal government
• Nixon signs two bills to assist children in foster care
• Head of Missouri's Emergency Management Agency leaves position

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Beloved Columbia educator and desegregation leader Eliot Battle dies at 88
• MU Chancellor Brady Deaton to retire in November
• Missouri to use new high school equivalency test starting January 1, 2014

Regional news from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Nixon speaks out again about tax cut bill veto
• Supreme Court Says Missouri school transfer law is Constitutional
• University of Missouri System appoints new vice president of academic affairs

Regional news from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Mo. department of agriculture warns against spread of pine shoot beetles
• Columbia city council discusses infrastructure at annual planning retreat
• State audit finds waste in child-care provider program
  

Regional news from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Columbia P&Z approves student apartment complex
• Developers propose conference center and hotel in Jefferson City

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including: 

• Missouri high school graduation rate ranks 8th in the nation
• Changes in UM System leadership after vice president retires
• Flooding, bacteria closes more public beaches in Missouri 

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Battle High School officially opens for first day of summer school
• Missouri Department of Natural Resources temporarily shuts down three beaches
• Flooded Missouri River still causing problems

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri lawmakers instituted interim Medicaid reform committee
• Nixon: Tax cut bill causes accidental medicine tax
• Sen. McCaskill gets earful from MU students on college loans
• Express Scripts expands to Joplin, to create 100 jobs

Regional news from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Wal-Mart pleads guilty to violating federal rules in Missouri
• US Rep. Hartzler visits Columbia's community health center
• Mo. court blocks eminent domain by port authority
• Adoption advocates urge Gov. Nixon to veto foreign law bill