Rudi Keller

The court concluded that Missouri refused to allow paycheck deductions to starve the corrections workers’ union during negotiations — violating the “fundamental right” to collective bargaining guaranteed by the Missouri Constitution, and freedom of speech and association rights protected by the state and federal constitutions.

Missouri Sen. Bill Eigel, who is considering running for governor in 2024, said the state's $6 billion cash balance should go to ‘big infrastructure projects.’ No one is sure how much it would cost to widen I-70.

Missouri's state treasury has a large surplus after 28 months of double-digit revenue growth and federal payments tied to COVID-19 relief and recovery. The extra money should help smooth any economic downturn while also allowing for new spending initiatives.

Jay Ashcroft’s proposed rules would deny state support to libraries that don’t adopt policies allowing patrons to challenge book selections for minors.

Missouri Democrats picked up three seats for its largest House caucus since 2011 and won an expensive state Senate race in St. Louis County.

Polls show Schmitt, Missouri's attorney general, leading in the race for the open seat in the U.S. Senate despite being outspent his opponent, Trudy Busch Valentine.

A Joplin hospital is apparently the first in the nation to be investigated for possibly violating federal law by telling a woman experiencing an emergency that she needed to terminate her pregnancy to protect her health, but that the abortion could not take place in Missouri.

After being admitted to Freeman Health Services in Joplin, a patient whose water broke before 18 weeks of pregnancy could not obtain an emergency abortion because of Missouri's near-total ban. Now the hospital is under investigation for possible violations of a federal law requiring hospitals in the Medicare program to provide care for patients in emergency situations.

In a campaign ad for Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine, a woman explained that she could not obtain needed care at Freeman Health System in Joplin because of Missouri's strict abortion ban. Investigators from the Department of Health and Senior Services then visited Freeman.

Six states, including Missouri and Kansas, are arguing that the Biden administration's debt relief plan harms entities that service the loans and treasuries that would benefit from taxes on forgiven debt.