Last weekend’s tornadoes have damaged at least 27 Missouri K-12 public school districts and charter schools. State Education Commissioner Karla Eslinger told Missourinet Gov. Mike Kehoe, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and state lawmakers...
We’re less than two months away from the next total solar eclipse, which will pass over southeastern Missouri on Tuesday, April 8th. Trish Erzfeld is Tourism Director for Perry County’s Heritage and Tourism group. She told Missourinet people wanting to view the...
(Missourinet Kennett affiliate KBOA contributed to this story) Missouri’s poorest region is getting an economic boost, with a $50 million peanut processing plant that’s being built in southeast Missouri’s Kennett. Jonesboro-based Delta Peanut held a...
A southern Missouri congressman who serves as the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee says he’s considering a run for the U.S. Senate in 2022. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Salem) spoke to Missourinet Monday evening outside the Statehouse in Jefferson...
A Missouri House committee on congressional redistricting wants public input Tuesday morning from residents in the sprawling Eighth Congressional District, which covers 30 southern and southeast Missouri counties. The district has about 20,000 square miles. House...
