COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Both leading candidates for the 2024 presidential election — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — made trips to the southern border this week. Discussions about migrants crossing the border has been a hot political issue within the past several weeks, with Gov. Mike Parson announcing he is sending more
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The governor’s funding plan to send National Guard soldiers to the country’s southern border has received initial approval.
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Candidates running for any office from U.S. Senate to governor to the state legislature lined up Tuesday at the James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center.
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As roughly 30% of Missouri school districts have switched to four-day school weeks, a lawmakers aims to incentivize schools to keep students in class five days a week.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri House Committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety on Thursday discussed a bill that would crack down on fentanyl traffickers. The debate comes after Gov Mike Parson blamed an increase in fentanyl deaths in Missouri to illegal immigrants during his Tuesday press conference on border security. The House bill
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A campaign committee has been filed for Columbia attorney Jeffrey Basinger the District 50 state House race, according to paperwork filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission on Thursday. Basinger’s committee shows he is running as a Democrat. Rep. Douglas Mann (D-Columbia) announced in October that he would not seek reelection, citing mental
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Gov. Mike Parson said this week that he will send up to 200 members of the Missouri National Guard to Texas to help with Operation Lone Star — that state’s effort to reduce illegal immigration.
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Baby Olivia isn’t a real baby. It’s an animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video that has become a new front in state-level abortion politics. Bills in the Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia legislatures would require public school students to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two of the first 11 Missouri State High Patrol troopers to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border will come from Troop F, which serves most of Mid-Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced his plans to send state resources, including troopers and national guardsmen, to Texas to help secure the southern border during a
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Bills that aim to make it harder for Missourians to amend the constitution are advancing in both the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Senate.
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An Olathe, Kansas, man identified himself over the weekend as the man arrested after the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade whose photograph went viral.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson announced his plans to send state resources to Texas to help secure the southern border during a Tuesday press conference. Earlier this month, Parson traveled to the southern border with 13 other governors to show support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star.” Parson described the border
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson was set to talk Tuesday afternoon about his deployment of Missouri resources to the country’s southern border.
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Several Missouri state senators shared now-deleted social media posts claiming a man arrested at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade was an illegal immigrant.
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House has passed a ban on celebratory gunfire in cities less than a week after a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade. The bipartisan-supported bill passed Monday after a tearful and confrontational debate between Republicans and Democrats over the best
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Democratic lawmakers are holding a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss gun laws, “in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade and the gun violence that erupts daily throughout Missouri due to the state’s lax laws.”
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The Republican announced on Monday he is running for the seat that current U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer plans to retire from in December.
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A builder with contracts in states from the Southeast to the Southwest, including several in Missouri, will build the first phase of an expanded Interstate 70.
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Missouri’s Senate returned to the Capitol on Tuesday morning to continue its debate from Monday night on reforming how constitutional questions make the ballot.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri lawmaker is pushing to ban corporations from claiming unborn babies as employees after the untimely death of a pregnant Missouri Department of Transportation employee. Kaitlyn Anderson was 25-years-old and six months pregnant with her son, Jaxx, when she died in 2021. A loophole in Missouri law led to Anderson’s
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