Republican lawmakers have suffered defeats on some of their most high-profile policy initiatives. Now, the spotlight swings to abortion in November.

“With great pride in what we have accomplished, I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri,” Bailey said Monday.

The comments came as Marshall is embroiled in a bitter reelection bid against his Democratic challenger, the Rev. Adam Hamilton.

Map opponents late Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the nation’s highest court to block a federal ruling in favor of the map.

The ruling came down after local election officials had already sent ballots overseas based on the state’s previous congressional map.

The news comes one day after Eric Zahnd was found dead inside the Platte County Courthouse. He was set to retire from the office he had held since 2002.

“The congressional map passed by the General Assembly in 2022 shall govern the upcoming General Election,” Hanaway’s office wrote in a filing with the Missouri Supreme Court.

The Missouri Supreme Court found that the state’s top election official was in contempt of its order. He has since reversed course and ordered the use a 2022 map – not the one recently engineered to f...

The extraordinary hearing comes amid a period of uncertainty over Missouri’s map.

The decision marked another salvo in Missouri’s chaotic redistricting saga that has drawn national attention.

The extraordinary order capped off another day of chaos in Missouri’s redistricting fight as Republicans attempted to press forward with a gerrymandered map.

Opponents of the map filed an emergency notice of appeal, seeking to bring the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

The move marks the end of a lengthy redistricting fight in Missouri and blocks a Republican attempt to oust Kansas City’s longtime congressman.

As the spotlight swings to the U.S. Supreme Court, The Star examined the dueling legal arguments and what they mean for Missouri’s upcoming election.

The campaign opposes a measure that would strike down a historic 2024 vote that legalized abortion access.

“We are equipped to make the necessary changes,” the directors, one Democrat and one Republican, said in a joint statement to The Star.

The statements came after the state Supreme Court ruled that a referendum campaign seeking to strike down the map must appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.

The unanimous decision found that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was wrong to reject a campaign seeking to strike down the map.

The case centers on Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ decision last month to block the campaign and declare it unconstitutional.

The high-stakes decision could effectively decide the future of Kansas City’s representation in Congress.

The Missouri Supreme Court is poised to decide the fate of a lawsuit seeking to strike down the state’s stadium-funding law as the Royals prepare for a new home.

The university’s decision has sparked a backlash from some students and civil rights leaders.

An email, obtained by The Star, offers fresh details about the abrupt exit of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City’s CEO.

Mayor Quinton Lucas will soon have the power to name Councilmember Andrea Bough’s successor on the council.

More than a year and a half after the deadly midair collision, families of the 67 victims are still waiting for safety regulations.

The retraction has once again thrust into the spotlight the city’s audit, which a former top staffer says Mayor Quinton Lucas ordered. Lucas vehemently denies the allegation.

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s roughly 80-mile drive to Sedalia illustrated the distance of Kansas City’s new, gerrymandered congressional district.

The case centers on Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’s extraordinary decision to block the campaign from the ballot.

A Kansas City man chosen by the Missouri Attorney General as a plaintiff in a lawsuit targeting the city has decades-old family and business links to the Kansas City mob, according to law enforcement ...

“I’m not saying that everything is going to go our way, but I clearly believe that the courts now want resolution,” Cleaver said ahead of a battle over the fate of his district.

Trump’s latest appointment solidified the Missouri Republican Party’s growing influence in the Republican president’s second term.

LeVota’s indictment put the 61-year-old attorney at the center of the chaos he promised to solve.

LeVota was charged with five counts in the federal indictment tied to a scheme where he allegedly offered a job to pull out of a race.

The indictment was announced in a press release from the federal prosecutors office Thursday. LeVota was indicted on July 16, 2026.

Missouri Democrats launched an online tool for voters to look up whether their state lawmaker voted to place the amendments on the ballot.

The lawsuit came just hours after Hoskins, a Republican, claimed that the campaign was unconstitutional.

Since becoming secretary of state, Hoskins has dramatically reshaped the office, historically a ministerial position designed to handle elections.

The endorsement comes less than a year after Missouri lawmakers redrew the 5th District under pressure from Trump amid a nationwide redistricting blitz

Brad Patty denied the charge, which was dropped, and cast it as a result of a tumultuous marriage that ended in divorce more than a decade ago.

Throughout his five years in the U.S. Senate, Roger Marshall has repeatedly touted projects funded by legislation he voted against.

Throughout his five years in the U.S. Senate, Roger Marshall has repeatedly touted projects funded by legislation he voted against.

Hanaway brought the suit alongside Charles Cacioppo Jr., who was previously at the center of a federal criminal probe related to contracts.