Midwest

Tara Blunt spent months asking officials at Falls City Public Schools for help as her son dealt with racism and physical abuse at school. Now, she’s sued a gutted U.S. Department of Education for taking too long to investigate.

Thousands of Midwesterners obtained health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. A federal work requirement would force states to enforce a policy that could cause a loss of benefits caused by administrative errors and red tape.

After May 7, people age 18 and older who want to travel domestically by air and enter certain federal buildings will need to present a Real ID or a valid passport.

As Missouri Republicans push a new version of the Second Amendment Preservation Act through the legislature, law enforcement officials in the state say lawmakers and supporters of the bill are ignoring their concerns.

Three weeks after an investigative report from The Midwest Newsroom, the Lincoln Police Dept. removed the captain from his leadership of its Special Victims Unit.

The future of hundreds of investigations into possible civil rights violations at schools across the Midwest, and thousands more nationwide, are in question after the Trump Administration shuttered seven of 12 Department of Education offices charged with running the investigations.

Lincoln has paid out millions of dollars in settlements to individuals, but the women who were abused say they still have lingering trauma and worry that city leaders are shying away from addressing the culture of mistreatment head-on.

“Strange and Familiar Places,” on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City through July 20, showcases 26 large-scale photographs by 10 contemporary artists, several with ties to Kansas and Missouri.

For the hundreds of meteorology students at the University of Missouri, working for the National Weather Service was the dream until federal job cuts hit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Plus: Firings at the U.S. Department of Agriculture have impacted research facilities across the Midwest.

Farmers, nonprofits and state agencies received almost $3 billion in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. But recent federal funding freezes have recipients concerned they won’t end up receiving money.

The Midwest Newsroom is examining the effect that shorter school weeks are having in communities across Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. We invite you to share your opinion using the form in this article.

Each year, volunteers venture out nationwide on a single night for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s point-in-time count in an effort to tally the country’s homeless population. Rural volunteers say they rely on the count to aid their unhoused populations. Meanwhile, experts say HUD may be undercounting.