Grand Opening in Days for New Poplar Bluff, Missouri Coffee Place

I've heard it said that you can never have enough coffee options and I'm probably the one that said it, but I'm guessing I'm not the only one. There is a grand opening that is just days away for a new java option in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. …

Missouri upgrades system for public benefits program WIC to allow remote benefits loading

May 15, 2025 6:00 am Bread at the Schnuck’s grocery story in Columbia marked as permitted to be purchased through Missouri’s WIC program, which provides supplemental foods, nutrition education and referrals to health care, at no cost, to low-income …

Cutting public broadcasting hurts Missouri communities

Concerns rise as new Missouri bill looks to ban cell phones from the classroom

KSHB 41 reporter Marlon Martinez covers Platte and Clay counties in Missouri. Share your story idea with Marlon. A new Missouri bill passed by the state legislature on Tuesday would require school districts to create a policy banning cell phone usage …

Negotiations over: Missouri Senate forces votes to pass abortion, paid sick leave proposals

Missouri voters will get to decide again whether abortion rights stay or go. Republicans in the state Legislature have passed two key hot-button priorities – a ballot measure to ask voters to ban most abortion rights and a repeal of a voter-approved paid …

Missouri Supreme Court hears ‘double taxation’ case involving marijuana dispensary

Can a marijuana dispensary be simultaneously taxed by a city and county? That’s the question the Missouri Supreme Court is now weighing. Attorney Eric Walter represents a cannabis dispensary in St. Louis County. He told the High Court this week that …

Highway Patrol reports 10 arrests in north Missouri May 12–14, 2025

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported 10 arrests in north Missouri between May 12 and May 14, 2025. The arrests were made for offenses including drug possession, driving while intoxicated, fleeing law enforcement, assault on officers, and sex crimes. …

Kit Bond, whose pork-barrel spending benefitted Missouri, dies

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the US Senate and who was state’s the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86. Bond’s family told Gov. Mike Kehoe’s …

Missouri Republicans Push to Overturn Voter-Backed Abortion Rights Amendment

By Blessing Nweke Six months after Missouri voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, Republican lawmakers have launched a new effort to repeal it. On Wednesday, the GOP-led Missouri Senate passed a proposed …

Thursday's 9 Things to Know: Abortion will be back on Missouri's ballot- May 15

Thursday's 9 Things to Know: Abortion will be back on Missouri's ballot- May 15 Missouri lawmakers put an abortion ban up for a vote in the future, state stadium funding goes nowhere, the Trump administration challenges birthright citizenship, and …