A small southern Missouri City is preparing for a significant labor expansion. West Plains Mayor Mike Topliff says the news this fall that an Alabama-based IT firm plans to hire 200 people in West Plains is spurring talk of new housing construction. Topliff offers...
Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation are busy with roadway flooding, mainly in southern counties. Chris Engelbrecht, the director of MoDOT’s Safety & Emergency Management Division says by late Sunday afternoon, approximately 150 roadways were...
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...
A southeast Missouri congressman says residents in the small town of Dexter are thankful that there were no injuries or deaths in Saturday night’s EF-2 tornado, which struck the town’s hospital and damaged at least 150 homes. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith...
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...
