A Missouri Senate committee is considering legislation designed to improve literacy among elementary school students. Senate Bill 1442 includes a new reading assessment that all kids in 1st through 3rd grades would have to take three times a year to measure their...
Show Me Today takes a closer look at a growing health issue right here in Missouri. MU Extension has just released a set of new guides to help families understand and manage it. Matt Pilger sat down with Eden Stewart, Nutrition and Health Specialist with the...
Matt Pilger takes us inside a new effort at the Missouri Capitol aimed at connecting classrooms with the state’s deep agricultural roots. He sat down with Missouri State Senator Barbara Washington, who is sponsoring a bill that would expand hands-on agriculture...
Missouri is the 2nd state to opt into a national initiative aimed at improving foster care. The main goal of the program is to ensure children have a safe, stable, loving environment. Missouri has over 11-thousand newborns-to-young adults in foster care. Sara...
With the U.S. and Israel continuing their assault on Iran, Americans are asking, what’s next and how long will this last? Democratic analyst Michael Kelly told KMOX Radio in St. Louis that he believes the country is in for a drawn-out battle in the Middle East....
Both of Missouri’s U.S. Senators are defending Kristi Noem’s tenure as Homeland Security Secretary. During an oversight hearing Tuesday in Washington, Democrats blasted her job performance after ICE agents killed two protesters in Minnesota. But U.S. Sen. Eric...
The State of Missouri provides skilled care homes for its veterans, working with the V-A, and sometimes it’s free. Ashley Byrd spoke with Becky McCann, a longtime nurse at the Missouri Veterans Commission home in Mt. Vernon. She is a veteran herself and explains...
New federal labor statistics show that 9.8% of Missouri’s wage and salary workers belonged to a union in 2025, placing the state just under the national union membership rate of 10%. Missouri recorded an estimated 271,000 union members, according to state level data...
The Missouri State High School Activities Association has ordered the resumption of the Class 3 sectional girls basketball game between Highland High School and Principia High School after finding that proper procedures were not followed regarding a scoring error and...
Missouri Congressman Mark Alford says he’ll be inside a classified briefing today for an update on the U.S. mission against Iran. He called the ongoing operation “necessary.” “From intercontinental ballistic missiles that Iran was developing and then them bragging to...
A Missouri House committee is debating whether to back a bill that would create an independent “Office of Transparency” within the state Department of Corrections. Sharon Geuea Jones with the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP testified in favor of HB...
