state fair

The Missouri State Fair is underway and more than 300,000 people are expected to head to Sedalia in the coming days. As KBIA’s Rebecca Smith reports, keeping that many people safe is a responsibility that’s actually too big for the town of about 22,000 people – but each year they get plenty of help.

The Missouri State Fair has wrapped up another year – full of exhibitions, carnival rides and agricultural competitions. KBIA was in Sedalia last Thursday to speak to fairgoers about what brought them out this year.

The end of summer is state fair season across the Midwest. That means lots of fried food, carnival rides and livestock competitions. But at most fairs,…

Gov. Jay Nixon made a return appearance Thursday to the State Fair's annual ham breakfast, after pulling out of last year's event due to the unrest in...

A new report from the US Department of Agriculture has found that through voluntary conservation measures, farmers reduced the amount of nitrogen that…

Republican Congressman Todd Akin has returned to public campaigning for the U.S. Senate with an appearance in rural northwest Missouri.Akin traveled…