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When Missouri lawmakers voted on the bill, the tax cut was estimated to reduce revenue by about $111 million annually. Now the state budget director says the loss could be as much as $500 million the first year and $360 million annual annually.

A Missouri House committee passed a proposal Thursday to place restrictions on the initiative petition process.

A community needs a vaccination rate of at least 95% to be adequately protected from measles outbreaks. In Missouri, the rate of vaccinated kindergarteners stands at 90%, while some areas have rates as low as 75%.

Only months after paid sick leave went into effect in Missouri, it ended. A workers' group wants to put the benefit before voters again as a constitutional amendment, which Republican lawmakers have vowed to fight. We hear from workers in their own words. Plus, in the early 1900s, three Wyandot Nation sisters barricaded themselves in a tribal burial ground in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, to save it from destruction. We'll hear about the new art installation that tells the story of the Conley...

Hundreds of workers and civil rights leaders rallied with renewed energy in Kansas City on Wednesday night, just moments after the news broke that Texas had approved a redrawn congressional map to favor Republicans. Advocates say they're working to keep the same from happening to Missouri, and are planning more rallies.

The city is now attempting to knit the once-thriving community back together.

In a new partnership with a company that provides high-tech garbage cans that turn food into compost, Kansas City will compost hundreds of thousands of tons of food waste for use on gardens and to grow food. Kansas Citians can now bring their food scraps to one of 50 bins around the city.

We are beginning an exciting new journey, and we want you to be part of it. The strategic plan we’re developing will help us continue to grow as a nurturing, responsive, welcoming, and joyful Library ...

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We're using the citizen initiative to protect the citizen initiative process, but we need your help. This Monday at 6pm CT, volunteers from across Missouri will gather virtually to make plans for act...

KCUR invited Congress members from Kansas and Missouri to answer questions from constituents about what's happening in Washington. Despite multiple invitations to each of the area’s federal elected of...

The price tag for a tax cut poised for passage in the Missouri General Assembly is likely many times bigger than estimated, a researcher says.