Frank White III has led the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority since 2022. The KCATA board decided to not renew his contract amid high tensions between the agency and Kansas City, and a looming fiscal cliff that has threatened service cuts multiple times this year.

When Missouri lawmakers voted on the bill, the tax cut was estimated to reduce revenue by about $111 million annually. Now the state budget director says the loss could be as much as $500 million the first year and $360 million annual annually.

Hundreds of Missourians are stuck in jail because they have been charged but not convicted of crimes, and were found incompetent to stand trial due to mental health disorders or cognitive disabilities. Now lawmakers are demanding solutions.

The Missouri attorney general claims that the Republican-drawn congressional map is now active. But an anti-redistricting campaign argues that the law must be suspended while the state determines if enough valid signatures were submitted to force a statewide vote.

The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strike down parts of the Voting Rights Act that protects minority-majority congressional districts. Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said the St. Louis-based 1st Congressional District may be redrawn next.

In January, all access to hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender youth will end in Kansas. Some families have already moved to avoid the ban.

People Not Politicians sued after Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said he wouldn't count anti-redistricting ballot measure signatures collected before Oct. 14.

After firing the business leaders who accepted a federal contract to design immigration detention facilities, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's chairperson compared such sites to Native American reservations.

The executive order is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to hold back state-level AI rules. Experts say it's not legal, and many Republicans, including Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, are also uncomfortable with the effort.

CoreCivic applied this week to receive a special use permit from Leavenworth to reopen its prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee center, called the Midwest Regional Reception Center. A federal judge previously called CoreCivic's facility “an absolute hell hole.”

Health care for some immigrants was stripped away more than three months ago when President Donald Trump rescinded a rule that offered health care plans to people who migrated to the U.S. as children.

A Kansas judge sided with Attorney General Kris Kobach that state law does not allow the quarter-cent public safety sales tax to be extended for the uses Johnson County commissioners wanted. The county will formally withdraw their resolution to put the question on the March ballot.