Near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday, the Missouri governor and top general of the Missouri National Guard touted the bill, which funds the deployment for 200 troops and 22 highway patrol officers.

Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson signed the legislation Thursday in his Jefferson City Capitol office. According to Planned Parenthood, only Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas have successfully blocked Medicaid funding for the organization.

The juvenile justice framework intended for youth rehabilitation has caused frustration among those involved — including parents left to feel hopeless and in limbo.

A grant awarded to NextGen Precision Health Institute by the ALS Association will give $400,000 over 4 years to NextGen researchers to help them reach more rural patients.

The law targets a plan by KC Recycle & Waste Solutions to build a landfill at Kansas City’s southern border. For more than a year, Raymore and other suburban municipalities have pushed legislation designed to block the landfill, arguing it would hurt the environment, property values and residents’ health.

The $156 million is part of the federal Inflation Reduction Act's Solar for All program.

Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.

After weeks of preparation, crews are scheduled to conduct a controlled demolition to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland.

Over some five decades, Corman filled America's drive-ins with hundreds of low-budget movies. Many of Hollywood's most respected directors have at least one Corman picture buried in their resumes.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

The Department of Social Services’ call center issues ultimately denied eligible Missourians meaningful access to benefits, a judge found.

Water is life. It gets us places. Connects us to each other. It holds history and tradition. It keeps all these things, and us, alive. History, and modern stories, show us this. For this episode, we explored these connections by documenting modern Indigenous relationships to the Missouri River and other sacred waters, caught a boat ride with historian and author Greg Olson, and observed a water blessing at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

"8,200 have been awarded since 1983 from 500 communities, 11 countries, 48 states. I mean, it's an amazing honor to be awarded the ATHENA." -- Karen Miller, past ATHENA honoree | Karen joins us alongside Jade Poe, director of the Women's Network, Columbia Chamber of Commerce May 9, 2024