The deadline for the legislature to pass the budget for the upcoming fiscal year is 6 p.m. Friday.

Near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday, the Missouri governor and top general of the Missouri National Guard touted the bill, which funds the deployment for 200 troops and 22 highway patrol officers.

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.

The juvenile justice framework intended for youth rehabilitation has caused frustration among those involved — including parents left to feel hopeless and in limbo.

A grant awarded to NextGen Precision Health Institute by the ALS Association will give $400,000 over 4 years to NextGen researchers to help them reach more rural patients.

The law targets a plan by KC Recycle & Waste Solutions to build a landfill at Kansas City’s southern border. For more than a year, Raymore and other suburban municipalities have pushed legislation designed to block the landfill, arguing it would hurt the environment, property values and residents’ health.

Scientists are looking at the ways humans change the planet — and the impact that has on the spread of infectious disease. You might be surprised at some of their conclusions.

The pro-Russian leader was reported to be fighting for his life after being hit in the stomach Wednesday. The shooting of Robert Fico comes just three weeks before European Parliament elections.

Powerful synthetic opioids and drugs like meth and cocaine still flood U.S. communities, fueling historically high overdose deaths.

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.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

"8,200 have been awarded since 1983 from 500 communities, 11 countries, 48 states. I mean, it's an amazing honor to be awarded the ATHENA." -- Karen Miller, past ATHENA honoree | Karen joins us alongside Jade Poe, director of the Women's Network, Columbia Chamber of Commerce May 9, 2024

In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Derek Bowens, the Elections Director in Durham County, North Carolina.They spoke about crafting narratives to help election administrators share and showcase the need for local investment in elections and about the importance of having election administrators that represent and reflect the voters they serve.

A roundup of regional headlines form the KBIA newsroom.