Two people are hospitalized following a shooting during a high school graduation commencement in Cape Girardeau.

Governor Mike Parson said today that Missouri taxpayers will not pay to defend the three state senators who incorrectly identified a Kansas man as the shooter at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.

KBIA's Laine Cibulskis sat down with Charlie Nilon, the Black Faculty and Staff representative on the University of Missouri faculty council, about the 14% explained pay gap in the report.

Mayor Quinton Lucas says the actions of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's rhetoric has led to "violent racist rhetoric" and harassment against female city employees. Bailey this week threatened legal action against Kansas City for publishing, and then deleting, a social media post saying that Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker lives in Lee's Summit.

Since 2018, at least a dozen states have taken some steps to either halt, scale back or provide greater notice of their use of children's benefits to cover required foster care costs.

Lawmakers approved the original law last session. The fix widens who would be eligible for a property tax freeze.

The Trump's Trials team breaks down why prosecutors have a timeline problem, what Michael Cohen's testimony so far has shown, and why it may all come down to a question of sex and privacy in the end.

Some otters rely on tools to bust open hard-shelled prey items like snails, and a new study suggests this tool use is helping them to survive as their favorite, easier-to-eat foods disappear.

In 2006, Patricia Nieshoff's three-year-old son had a seizure. She was a single mother, with no one to accompany her to the hospital. But an hour into her hospital stay, a familiar face appeared.

In the final episode of season one, we’re turning things over to River Town Producer Tadeo Ruiz. Tadeo is pretty new to Missouri – via Mexico City - and he’s been surprised to learn about how much people here love the river. But during his reporting for River Town, he started to feel connected with one Missouri River town in particular… Rocheport. Follow him along his journey as he gets to know the river and the people who love it.

The company said it plans to invest more than $92 million into factory improvements.

Planned Parenthood will hold a two-day vasectomy clinic May 16 and 17 in Columbia.

Mizzou softball is back in the NCAA Tournament.

The Eatwell Market on Providence Road will become a traditional Schnucks supermarket this summer.

The Department of Social Services’ call center issues ultimately denied eligible Missourians meaningful access to benefits, a judge found.

Water is life. It gets us places. Connects us to each other. It holds history and tradition. It keeps all these things, and us, alive. History, and modern stories, show us this. For this episode, we explored these connections by documenting modern Indigenous relationships to the Missouri River and other sacred waters, caught a boat ride with historian and author Greg Olson, and observed a water blessing at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson signed the legislation Thursday in his Jefferson City Capitol office. According to Planned Parenthood, only Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas have successfully blocked Medicaid funding for the organization.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office argues the three Republican lawmakers are protected by ‘legislative immunity’.

In this episode of River Town, we’re going to meet River Town’s youngest upstanding citizens, learn what people are doing to protect our waterways from pollution, and what’s happening in Missouri water policy right now.

The executive order will expire on May 30, unless it is terminated or extended.