It has been just more than a week since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Missouri’s “trigger law,” which outlaws nearly all abortions in the state, was put into effect.On the day the decision was announced – Friday, June 24th – Mallory Schwarz, the Executive Director of Pro-Choice Missouri, and Chimene Schwach, the Vice President of the Missouri Family Health Council Board, sat down with KBIA’s Rebecca Smith to discuss where abortion rights in the state go from here.

The Commonwealth Fund's 2022 Scorecard on State Health System performance ranked Missouri as the worst state in the great plains region for COVID-19 response.

On Friday, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Missouri became the first state in the county to intact it’s trigger law, which outlaws abortion in all cases except when the pregnant person’s life is in danger.Just hours later, more than a hundred people gathered at the Boone County Courthouse for a somewhat informal protest – to be together, to grieve, to share their own experiences with abortion and talk about what steps people could take next.

A startup owned by a private equity firm acquired two rural hospitals in mid-Missouri and closed both shortly after.

So-called cryptic lineages may hold clues to better understand how the virus that causes COVID mutates to evade our immune systems.

University of Missouri School of Law professor Rigel Oliveri speaks to the potential ramifications of the leaked draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Missourians are facing an average wait of more than 80 days to get applications processed, despite changes the state hopes will speed up the process.

Medicaid applicants in Missouri are facing average wait times to get their applications processed of nearly four months: well over the 45 days required by the federal government.

On March 18, 2020 the governor announced Missouri had lost its first resident to COVID-19. Two years on, leaders are taking stock of what has changed, and what's been lost.

Last August, the United States completed the American exit from Afghanistan, and as the Taliban regained control of the county, numerous Afghans – many of whom had worked with the US military – were forced to flee.Several hundred of those refugees have ended up in Mid-Missouri, so in January community groups came together to gather donations for new and expectant Afghan moms.And they didn’t stop there – they also hosted a baby shower and health clinic to educate and welcome Afghan Mom as they transition to life in America and to life as new moms.