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Educators say school choice programs boost student population.

Local officials want critical access hospital constructed in Audrain County.

Missouri’s farmers rely on a mineral that can only be found a mile deep in the earth’s crust. Its red-and-white crystals are rough to the touch and usually hidden in clay.

The Presser Art Center in Mexico has been hosting a new class, Art for All Abilities, which gives creators with developmental and intellectual disabilities the opportunity to come together and make art.

Property tax freeze for residents 62-plus likely to hit local education funding.

The company plans to hire 225 to 250 employees at its new Mexico processing facility.

The Mexico-Audrain County Library District recently began offering a new service in partnership with a local doctor. Christal Bruner is the director of the library district and spoke about how patrons can now check out blood pressure monitors when they need them, as well as new books that help better explain this and other health conditions.

After Audrain County's only hospital closed in 2022, city and county officials have been looking to reestablish care with a critical access hospital — leading them to a partnership with Boone Health.

The move is expected to created 250 jobs.

Once cut-throat competitors, journalists are now more frequently working together — often across borders — to investigate social problems that authorities…