Whether you’re smelting or farming, you’re fighting the same battle for affordable energy, steady pay and a future worth passing on.

Dalton Ezell is a small town family man from Southeast Missouri. He spent several years in the aluminum industry before ...

Joplin officials recently passed an ordinance banning the practice after noticing out-of-state vehicles dropping off homeless ...

The Independent has documented a pattern of well-connected groups flooding the microbusiness lottery by recruiting people to ...

Missouri doctors warn new CDC recommendations that parents wait to vaccinate newborns against Hepatitis B could create more ...

Wanting to protect children online is the most reasonable instinct in the world. But we shouldn’t trade privacy and free expression.

The USDA has approved Missouri's request to restrict the use of food stamps for the purchase of some junk food items.

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought.

Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.

Families of Missourians with developmental disabilities are urging legislators to protect a program allowing them to manage ...

A Texas developer wants to revive the Plaza. But the plan could come at a massive cost for Kansas City schools and other ...

The Missouri State Board of Education approved legislative priorities that appear to show support for open enrollment.