Joplin

Western Kentucky is dealing with the aftermath of a deadly tornado now, but 10 years ago Joplin, Mo., was in the same place. Joplin Mayor Ryan Stanley offers his advice for those in Kentucky.

Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that a staggering 55% of frontline health care workers are reporting burnout — or mental and physical exhaustion from chronic workplace stress.

Vaccination rates in Kansas City, Missouri, and some metro counties are lower than in Joplin, where a Delta-variant surge is driving one of the highest new case rates in the state.

Conflicting messages throughout the pandemic have led many people to have dramatically different assessments of risk.

On Sunday May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado swept through Joplin, Missouri. In minutes, winds reaching up to 200 miles per hour reduced homes and buildings to…

Joplin city leaders and school officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience campus on…

With the United States facing a shortage of physicians over the next decade, health care groups and lawmakers are scrambling to increase the number of…

“I love the chainsaw guys,” Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon interrupts.Dwain Carter, director of disaster relief for the Missouri Baptists, is trying to tell the…

The rebuilding of Joplin after a devastating tornado struck in 2011 was generally applauded as a textbook example of how to take care of people when…

A Kansas City council committee says concerns over the Paris terrorist attacks may help the city to get back on the list of metropolitan areas receiving…

Kansas City won’t be getting the volume of federal funding it’s been accustomed to for preparation against terrorist attacks and natural disasters, said…

People in the path of severe weather (and other emergencies) now have a new way to find out about threats: text message alerts, sent straight to mobile…