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Many Kansas City residents have made hours-long road trips to get COVID-19 vaccines when none were offered locally. -
Between the pandemic and the state budget, Missouri Governor Mike Parson's State of the State address outlined the challenges for Missourians in 2021.
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson's State of the State address outlined the challenges for Missourians in 2021 and a trove of photographs depicting Thomas Hart Benton in his Kansas City studio was recently discovered.
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Majority Leader Caleb Rowden tweeted that the chamber would delay its session until after the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Kansas City health officials released a “call to action” Friday, asking communities to enforce mask mandates, restrict social interaction and close bars and restaurants at 10 p.m.
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Missouri Republicans once again will have free reign to reshape policy and politics throughout state government. Democrats? Not so much.
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Republican Gov. Mike Parson defeated State Auditor Nicole Galloway on Tuesday to win a full term as Missouri’s chief executive.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has called a second special legislative session to begin on Thursday, Nov. 5, to deal with a supplemental budget bill. The main priority is ensuring the state has access to additional federal funding for coronavirus response and recovery.
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State Auditor Nicole Galloway is hoping to bring the Missouri governorship back into the Democratic fold, saying she's "offering a new way."
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A special legislative session convened by Gov. Mike Parson on June 27 was meant to focus on six violent crime prevention provisions.
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Kansas City faith leaders are developing police division-specific strategies to deter violent crime, a powerful windstorm disrupts communities, crops and livelihoods in Iowa, and a special session in the Missouri General Assembly drags on nearly a month after being called to order.
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The head of the Missouri Health Department stands by his decision not to recommend statewide masks or social distancing policies, even as the federal government has designated the state a “red zone” for new coronavirus cases.
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The money is in Parson's budget, but other Republicans argue voters didn't understand what they were approving.
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Missouri public health officials said the outsourcing approach missed the mark on the mission of public health: getting the vaccine to those who need it the most.
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After an active first few months of the 2021 legislative session, lawmakers are returning Monday to Jefferson City after a weeklong spring break with several priorities on the agenda of the Republican supermajority.
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Even if the federal government boosts vaccine supply and every U.S. adult becomes eligible in May, widespread immunity could still take until 2022.
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The Friday and Saturday vaccination effort is by appointment only.
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The first 900,000 will include homeless people, construction workers and those who work in higher education, all of whom become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on March 29.
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Due to higher demand in urban areas, more mass vaccination events will be moved to the state’s two largest metropolitan areas.
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In total, nearly 150 areas across the state’s government agencies saw a reduction in their budgets, but with Monday's announcement, all funding is restored.
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The state is demanding that more than 46,000 people pay back money the state said it mistakenly overpaid them last year.
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Some local health officials warned that opening eligibility could result in some already-eligible people who have not received shots being left further behind.
