Ozarks

Missouri’s Ozark Mountains are known for their lush wilderness and popular tourist destinations. But what about the food? Like much of Ozark culture, the cuisine remains deeply misunderstood and shrouded in stereotypes. From deep in the forest to upscale restaurants, these food lovers are preserving the Ozarks' past and charting its future.

Missouri’s Ozark Mountains are known for their lush wilderness and popular tourist destinations. But what about the food? Like much of Ozark culture, the cuisine remains deeply misunderstood and shrouded in stereotypes. From deep in the forest to upscale restaurants, these food lovers are preserving the Ozarks' past and charting its future.

The drought affecting the Midwest has revealed an extra 1,100 feet to a cave in the Missouri Ozarks at Smallin Cave, a registered National Historic Place.

Workers in a small Missouri alterations shop watch from afar as a humanitarian crisis unfolds in Ukraine, even though their home countries are on opposing sides of the conflict.

Southwest Missouri’s most popular tourist areas — from Branson to the Lake of the Ozarks — are the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Delta variant.

Earlier this month, Misty Traver of Willow Springs, Missouri, heard a sound she won't likely forget.

The number of black bears in Missouri has more than doubled in seven years, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. There are now as many...

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There was a time, around Kansas City — and the whole country — when the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were the soundtrack of summer.When you drove around…

Eastern hellbender salamanders, which have been declining all over the U.S. for decades, are doing so poorly in Missouri that they may receive federal...

If you can imagine Las Vegas, a county fair and the TV show Hee Haw mashed up and spread out along an old Ozark highway, then you’ll have an idea of what…

Hear the story behind Springfield-style cashew chicken: we talk to the chef whose father, inspired by the food of the Ozarks, invented the dish. Then,…