Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has been seeking medical records on gender-affirming health care for minors from providers across Missouri. An appeals court said Planned Parenthood must produce "de-identified" medical records or otherwise cite exemptions.

Officials say an unvaccinated child in Sedgwick County has tested positive for measles.

Senate Bill 71 expands the death benefit for officers killed in the line of duty to $100,000.

Three years after David Schneider was sentenced to 50 years in prison, his former gymnasts and their families live with the emotional scars of the offenses and the trauma of going to trial. Schneider continues to appeal his conviction.

Despite efforts to develop markets and genetics, Missouri's industrial hemp industry is at its lowest point in years. “Most of the farmers who started with hemp — they lost money,” says a Missouri agricultural economist.

With vaccine skepticism on the rise, immunization rates in decline and public funds disappearing, the country faces its largest measles outbreak since 2019.

The reproductive health nonprofit Right By You contends that Missouri's parental consent law is unconstitutional under Amendment 3, the abortion rights measure passed by voters last year. It's also challenging Missouri’s ban on aiding or assisting a minor seeking an abortion.

Just months after Missouri voters approved an amendment to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are one vote away from putting abortion back on the ballot. The resolution would reinstate a statewide ban with some exceptions.

Triple negative breast cancer is aggressive and hard to treat. It also disproportionately affects Black women. A University of Kansas medical researcher is working to find out why and expand treatment options.

Kansas City, Missouri, has not recorded a measles case since 2019 but that could soon change, as southwest Kansas is experiencing a measles outbreak this year. Officials say religious exemptions to vaccines are becoming more common, and giving deadly diseases a foothold.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appears poised to cut a $56 million annual grant program that pays for some of Missouri's overdose reversal medication and training.

A Jackson County judge halted a number of Missouri's abortion restrictions after voters passed Amendment 3. But this week, Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a bill that gives the attorney general the right to appeal temporary pauses against state laws or constitutional provisions.