funding cuts

KBIA has met half its $500,000 fundraising goal and KOPN has raised $47,000.

The Topeka-based company received approval to build two new natural gas plants, as well as a Kansas solar field.

Farmers who were promised funding through the federal Regional Food Business Centers have been left in limbo after the Trump administration shut down the program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will honor grants the program already approved, but it’s unclear when.

COVID paused prevention efforts, which helped fuel the rise in new infections. Now federal funding cuts threaten to disrupt those efforts again

The U.S. Senate’s version of the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” could ultimately have major budgetary consequences for Missouri, thanks to a provision capping a critical tax that helps pay for Medicaid.

Freedom’s Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, will “cease to exist” if Congress approves proposed legislation to defund National Heritage Areas, the organization’s spokesman says.

The proposed federal budget for 2026 includes reductions in funding for education and research, totaling almost $163 billion.

The system's cost-saving measures will go into effect immediately as it faces economic uncertainty and federal funding cuts.

The Missouri Family Health Council (MFHC) was expecting year 4 of a 5 year grant for $8.5 million until The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services informed the council and 15 other Title X grantees that the money was being temporarily withheld.

A day before the new budget period for Title X, a federal reproductive healthcare grant, Missouri’s sole grantee received notice from the federal government that the state’s cash would be withheld.