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Shoppers will soon be able to score some better deals in Miami. Oklahoma recently changed the law that prohibited retailers f...
Governor Nixon met with Missouri higher education leaders Tuesday to promote his veto of a bill that would cut the state inco...
Joplin Police are trying to solve a robbery that happened at Fletcher Ford early Monday. Police say an employee came in to wo...
Mizzou Athletics utilized today’s Tiger Scholarship Fund outing in Kansas City to unveil its 2013-14 Men’s Basket...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a bill yesterday that would've reduced state income taxes. It would've gradually c...
One of the landmarks on I-44 between Joplin and Tulsa is closing Tuesday. The Vinita Service Plaza is closing to undergo a ye...
Tornadoes rolling in from the prairie slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday. People were trapped in their vehicles ...
Over 250 volunteers built a playground in Joplin Friday. KaBOOM!, the McDonald's Foundation and Community Support Service...
People in Missouri, specifically Republican lawmakers, are still talking about this year's scandal about the Department o...
Legislation that could ease the caseload of Missouri public defenders is being considered by Gov. Jay Nixon.The measure would...
Missouri US Senator Claire McCaskill has received an earful of comments from debt-ridden University of Missouri students duri...
Nearly two years to the day after Jacque Sue Waller was last seen alive, the body of the southeast Missouri mother of young t...
Missouri 7th District Congressman Billy Long started off his annual Manufacturing Tour today to meet with area manufactuers a...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty in Missouri to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act by fa...
The Keystone XL Pipeline project has been approved by the US House and now goes to the Senate. Missouri 4th District Congress...
The National Weather Service has confirmed two small tornadoes in southwest Missouri early Monday. The touchdowns occurred sh...
R U OK? The Ozark Center, a behavioral health division of Freeman Health,is offering free, confidential 24-hour a day couseli...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a bill clarifying the way a vacancy is filled in the office of lieutenant gov...
Missouri's 2013 legislative session has come to an end.The House and Senate each wrapped up their work Friday shortly aft...
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that the U.S lower the legal Blood Alcohol Limit from .08 to .05; to...
Missouri lawmakers want county sheriffs rather than the state Revenue Department to print concealed weapons permits.The Senat...
Two Missouri state senators are going to get a surprise today. Joplin City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Bill Scearcetells New...
Missouri Senator Ron Richard appeared on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning. KZRG has been following the investigation ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have repealed a tax break for low-income seniors and disabled r...
Americans for Prosperity- Missouri, a group that supports limited government, less taxes and fiscal restraint for the governm...
Missouri lawmakers passed an income tax cut late last week... but there are no guarantees it'll survive. State Representa...
Governor Jay Nixon has indicated he's likely to veto legislation that would cut Missouri income taxes for businesses and ...
Two of three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison are in custody in northwest Missouri.The Platte County (M...
Missouri lawmakers have passed a nearly $25 billion budget that could force Gov. Jay Nixon to choose between aiding child...
Missouri lawmakers have sent Governor Jay Nixon a spending plan that includes money for the state mental hospital, the Capito...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to an income tax cut for businesses and individuals that could reduce state reve...
Governor Jay Nixon is warning of layoffs if legislators pass a budget that reduces money for Missouri's motor vehicle div...
Did Governor Jay Nixon comply with the Real ID Act, even though it's against Missouri state law?"No, because we didn...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon visited Jasper R-5 High School today to recognize the school district for academic excellence and...
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones has created a committee that will investigate Governor Jay Nixon and the decision to make co...
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to finalize the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget. The House and Sena...
Did Missouri Governor Jay Nixon violate state law? Some are saying so with the revelation that he apparently took steps to co...
The head of the Kansas Rifle Association says gun rights supporters in Kansas are ``all in'' for a new state law that...
People fired for missing work and not following company rules could have a harder time claiming unemployment benefits in Miss...
MissouriRepublican lawmakers are raising new questions about whether Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's administration has tried...
A Missouri senator says a subpoena has been issued to a federal investigator who sought a list of Missouri concealed gun perm...
A judge has expunged the arrest record of a former executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party.An order Friday by St....
A gun bill has passed the Missouri House. House Bill 170 says any new Federal law that bans or restricts ownership of semi-au...
The Missouri House has passed legislation that would trim the state's income tax and raise the sales tax as part of an ec...
The Missouri House has endorsed legislation that would remove the state Revenue Department from the process of printing licen...
Mercy Hospital Joplin and the University of Missouri Medical School are re-starting a partnership that lets third year medica...
An effort by Missouri Southern State University's president to remove mention of its international mission from state law...
A program to train University of Missouri medical students as rural health care providers will be unveiled in Joplin Tuesday....
The Missouri Senate has given final approval to a bill that would give Joplin $15 million to rebuild curbs and gutters th...
Missouri senators have endorsed a plan that could provide $15 million to Joplin to rebuild street curbs and gutters that ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon continues to campaign for expanding Medicaid coverage. At a rally at the State Capitol Tuesday, N...
Missouri lawmakers are looking to renew an economic development program that has provided about $120 million of tax credi...
The Social Security Administration says one of its fraud investigators received a readable list of Missourians who have conce...
The name of the man who was killed in a shootout with law enforcement this morning outside the Joplin Motel 6 has been releas...
The controversy over the release of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders' data to a federal government office continu...
A group that's helped Joplin rebuild since the May 2011 tornado is heading home. Mennonite Disaster Service held a going-...
Two Guatemalan citizens living illegally in Carthage are going to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to obtain driver'...
The Missouri State Highway Patrol isn't saying much about why they turned over the list of Missouri's concealed weapo...
Attorney General Chris Koster says he won't appeal a federal court ruling striking down a Missouri law that exempted mora...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Carthage Wednesday to continue his push to expand Medicaid. Nixon wants to make another 30...
New details emerged yesterday that show the state of Missouri has, in fact, been collecting the personal information of drive...
Newly released documents show Missouri has taken steps to build a database of driver's license information that would mee...
A group of abortion rights activists delivered about 1,600 signed petitions to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's office urging ...
The Missouri House has endorsed legislation reducing the amount consumers can buy each month of a popular decongestant that&#...
Missouri is moving forward with a reorganization of several state agencies.The Legislature did not object, so three executive...
Joplin will have a special election in August on curbside recycling. At a work session Monday night, the City Council voted t...
Neosho is going to be a busy place the next couple days. Missouri's Largest Garage Sale will take place Friday and Saturd...
A Republican-led House committee has approved legislation that would expand Missouri's Medicaid program but not as greatl...
The Missouri Highway Patrol says people looking to make a quick buck are doing the bidding of meth manufacturers. The practic...
The Joplin Police Department's holding a crackdown against drunk driving this weekend. Sgt. Rusty Rives tells News Talk K...
A Joplin man is remembering his late wife with a scholarship at Missouri Southern State University. The Carolyn Bowman Braun ...
How big ofa problem is teen suicide? Debbie Fitzgerald of the Ozark Center in Joplin tells News Talk KZRG it's bigger tha...
Missouri's unemployment rate inched up slightly in February although the state also posted gains in the number of jobs.Fi...
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones was in Joplin this morning meeting with business leaders. One big topic was a bill passed in...
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is threatening to block President Barack Obama's choice for Environmental Protectio...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature has repeatedly defeated a plan to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama'...
Missouri senators have passed legislation that would cut income taxes for residents and businesses but raise the state sales ...
A southeast Missouri man's lawsuit claims the Department of Revenue is keeping track of the personal information of conce...
American College Testing announced today that Jasper County is the first county in the country to be named a Certified Work R...
People in southwest Missouri learned about severe weather the hard way two years ago when an EF-5 tornado tore through Joplin...
The Missouri House has endorsed the creation of several new tax breaks intended to lure high-tech businesses and foreign trad...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is up in arms about the Department of Revenue saving the personal information of an...
How will the sequester affect Missouri? Webb City State Representative Charlie Davis tells News Talk KZRG he's not sure h...
Rates will be going up for Empire District Electric customers.The Missouri Public Service Commission said Wednesday that it h...
Joplin will be participating in Missouri's statewide tornado drill next Tuesday at 1:30pm. Joplin Emergency Management Co...
If you're planning to spend some time boating this spring and summer, there's a Missouri boating safety certification...
Missouri lawmakers still got some work done, despite having a shortened work week due to a winter storm that hit the area on ...
It isn't very often you'll find Republicans in favor of a tax, but that's what's happening in the Missouri Le...
The cost of higher education just got a little higher. Missouri Southern State University's Board of Governors Friday app...
A Neosho elementary school is one of eleven in Missouri to receive an Exemplary School award from the state Department of Ele...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin this afternoon to push his plan to expand Medicaid by making another 300,000 Missou...
Joplin Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean has been appointed to serve on a state committee that will look into early voting in Missou...
If you drive, you've noticed it. The average price for a gallon of unleaded gas in Missouri has risen 32 cents since Janu...
Officials in Pineville, McDonald County and the State of Missouri want to know where the money is. Spence Jackson with the st...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has reversed an $8.5 million cut to public colleges and universities because of improving sta...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon found himself on the defensive late last week after it came out that his campaign received a $...
Governor Nixon's State of the State speech has State Representative Charlie Davis of Webb City scratching his head. Davis...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was a guest on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning, talking about proposals made in his Stat...
State records show that Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon received a $10,000 donation from a firm with a state contract on the same...
The annual Newton and Jasper Counties Lincoln Day Dinner will be held Saturday, February 23rd in Joplin. Nick Myers, the Newt...
Joplin's unemployment situation continues to shine. The US Department of Labor's December statistics show a 5.3 perce...
A Missouri Senate committee is considering a bill in which first-graders would have to take a gun safety course. It's bee...
Missouri first-graders would have to take a gun safety course under a bill being considered by a state Senate committee.Sen. ...
House Speaker Tim Jones gave the Republican response to Missouri Governor Nixon's State of the State speech Monday night....
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is vowing to back a ballot initiative to restore limits on campaign contribution if lawmakers refuse ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income adults and authorize hundreds ...
Missouri will be having a statewide earthquake drill next week as part of Earthquake Awareness Month in February. Joplin Emer...
The president of the Missouri State Board of Education has resigned after a second lawsuit accused him of using his position ...
The Missouri House this week passed a bill to change the way vacancies in statewide offices are filled. The bill would preven...
Earlier this month, David Wallace with Joplin's master developer Wallace Bajjali said he was going to speak to a college ...
The chairman of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission is suggesting a 1-cent sales tax for 10 years that would ...
Fair. That's the rating the City of Diamond got in its audit by the State of Missouri. State Auditor Tom Schweich deliver...
It costs about 30 dollars a day for Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland to house a state prisoner in his jail. But he tells Ne...
A Missouri House bill aims to restrict the use of cash welfare benefits at casinos and liquor stores. The bill's sponsor,...
Two Missouri Republican lawmakers aren't pleased with President Obama's gun control proposals. Senator Roy Blunt issu...
A Missouri man accused of torturing a young woman he kept as a sex slave has pleaded guilty to having sex with her when she w...
Jay Nixon began his second term as Missouri Governor Monday by taking the oath of office in Jefferson City. The Democrat says...
MoDOT has awarded a $130,000 grant to help teens stay away from alcohol. Springfield attorney Kurt Larson founded Safe an...
An education advocacy group in a new report is critical of Missouri's policies for its schools.The report released Monday...
They may need to make some room in the Joplin Schools' trophy case. Superintendent Doctor CJ Huff is one of four finalist...
Minimum wage earners in Missouri got a raise Tuesday. The state's minimum wage increased by ten cents to $7.35 an hou...
Missouri's National Guard was busy overseas in 2012. Major General Stephen Danner, the adjutant general of the Missouri G...
The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office is urging a Delaware County judge to dismiss the latest appeal of a man sentenced ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will take his second oath of office on January 14th. According to the Governor's inauguration...
It's not due to Santa Claus, but gas prices in the Four States are lower than they were a few months ago. Ron Leone, exec...
No guns for Missouri teachers. Governor Jay Nixon has come out in opposition to legislative proposals that would allow teache...
The Environmental Protection Agency says a southwest Missouri business that disposes of explosives waste has agreed to pay &#...
Attorney General Chris Koster and Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney Dean Dankelson today charged Urban Metropolitan Developm...
Following record-setting years in 2010 and 2011, Missouri’s exports are on pace to again exceed expectations, Gov. Jay ...
If you bank at Bank of America in southwest Missouri or Pittsburg, something's going to change. Arvest Bank has agreed to...
A 17-year-old being charged with first degree murder for a Joplin man's death is being challenged. Attorneys for Daniel H...
The new Speaker of the Missouri House was in Joplin today. Tim Jones is in the middle of a four day, 20 city tour of the stat...
The company that manages a southwest Missouri apartment building where five people died in a Thanksgiving Day fire had disabl...
A citizen's sharp eye led to two men from Missouri being arrested for burglary at a home northeast of Columbus. Cherokee ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon spent $15.5 million on his re-election campaign and still has hundreds of thousands of dollar...
Missouri drivers won't be able to get Pittsburg State University license plates after all. PSU's marketing director s...
The Carthage Area United Way is in the home stretch of its annual fund-raising drive. Executive Director Jenny Mansfield tell...
The Neosho School District has hired a new superintendent. Dan Decker, the current superintendent in Aurora, will move to Neo...
Officials say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher punched out a window and cut his hand during his freshman year at t...
Starting January 1st, McDonald County businesses that sell alcohol will have some competition. Benton County, Arkansas, which...
Authorities in southwest Missouri say they may never know what started a fire that killed five people at an apartment buildin...
A family in northwest Missouri has won one of the winning Powerball tickets. The Hill family of Dearborn says they can't ...
Governor Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both ``the smart thing'' and ``the right thing ...
The Missouri Lottery has verified the state's winning Powerball ticket.A news conference to reveal who bought the ticket ...
A Joplin-area resident is $1-million richer this morning. A manager at Casey's General Store on Range Line Road tells...
The Missouri Lottery Commission got a "good" grade from State Auditor Tom Schweich. who says the lottery has been r...
A Golden man was killed in a one-vehicle crash over the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend. Sgt. Mike Watson of the Missouri Highwa...
There's less than a month left before Christmas, and the Joplin Habitat for Humanity's hoping to get as many families...
Five people including a child are dead after a fire broke out at an apartment building in southwest Missouri.Bob Lombard, chi...
Missouri's Department of Conservation says hunters took nearly 205,000 deer during November's 11-day firearms season....
If you're planning on a road trip today for Thanksgiving, you're not alone. Sgt. Mike Watson of the Missouri Highway ...
A highly touted plan by Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse to design and build a series of next-generation nuclear reactors at ...
This weekend, Joplin Police will be cracking down on drunk and impaired drivers. Sergeant Rusty Rives won't tell News Tal...
You'd better have your seat belts on. Missouri law enforcement have a "Click It or Ticket" enforcement effort F...
A member of the Joplin Police Department is in Nassau County, New York helping with the recovery of Hurricane Sandy. Lieutena...
A southwest Missouri man admits that he collected thousands of photos and videos of child pornography in the last 10 to 15 ye...
A new report says elementary schools in Kansas and surrounding states have reduced, or even eliminated, science education in ...
Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill says there’s no way around it...some of us are going to have to pay more t...
Two people killed in a small plane crash in central California were a southwest Missouri doctor and his father. The FAA says ...
A southwest Missouri couple will stand trial on charges that they defrauded victims of the 2011 Joplin tornadoSixty-five-year...
A $140,000 penalty has been proposed for a local water utility after an employee died in a work-related accident last May...
Former first lady Laura Bush is coming to southwest Missouri today to speak at College of the Ozarks and help dedicate a new ...
Missouri senior guard Michael Dixon remains suspended and will not play in the team's season opener Saturday against Sout...
Missouri voters have rejected a measure that would have sharply increased the state's lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax.Tu...
A University of Missouri sophomore has been sentenced to probation for stealing women's underwear from a residence hall l...
Should Missouri raise taxes on tobacco and cigarettes by $0.73 per pack? That's one of the big questions on the ballo...
It's Election Day, with federal, state, and local offices all up for grabs. Newton County Clerk Kay Baum says you should ...
"If Governor Romney wins on Tuesday, I think there'll be the beginning of a pretty good line at the lumberyard by Fr...
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt, Congressman Billy Long and Secretary of State candidate Shane Schoeller came to Joplin and Neosho...
Pittsburg Police are looking for a man who they say shot a woman Sunday morning. Police were called to a domestic shooting at...
Empire District Electric will not be allowed to raise their rates anytime soon. A request to implement an interim electric ra...
Missouri's Attorney General made a campaign stop in Joplin today. Chris Koster told a crowd this morning what sets him ap...
Joplin City officials have reached out to Missouri’s State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to offer assistance to ci...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon joined a very prestigious group Thursday, as he became just the seventh person to be named a &quo...
A 72-year-old southwest Missouri man remains in critical condition after a freak crash that killed a restaurant customer and ...
36 cents. That's how much the price of a gallon of gas has dropped in Missouri over the last month. The statewide average...
A 5-year-old girl abducted in southeast Missouri is found alive, and the convicted sex offender suspected of taking her is in...
The Missouri athletics department is tightening employee use of school-issued credit cards after an audit found a series of i...
Entertainer Andy Williams is being remembered for his smooth voice, gleaming smile and warm heart during a memorial tribute a...
Former Arkansas First Lady Janet Huckabee was in Joplin Tuesday night campaigning for US Senate candidate Todd Akin. Followin...
Fans of Route 66 from across the world will be coming to Joplin next August for the annual International Route 66 Festival. I...
The National Weather Service says a weak tornado was responsible for some minor damage in southwest Missouri over the weekend...
Belfonte Ice Cream is recalling two types of ice cream that contain peanut butter because of the potential of salmonella cont...
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's lawsuit challenging the federal heal...
A woman who admitted stealing checks and credit cards from mailboxes throughout southwestern Missouri has been sentenced to t...
EPA Region 7 will provide an additional $2.4 million to the City of Joplin, Mo., to help sample and remediate lead and ca...
One of four defendants accused of killing a Pittsburg man at his home last October was sentenced Wednesday. 22-year-old Ricke...
Two men have been charged with kidnapping and murdering a southwest Missouri couple in April 2011.Authorities from Taney and ...
A collection of rare historical pieces from the Civil War will be on display in Joplin. An exhibit focusing on Missouri's...
It's Homecoming Week at Missouri Southern State University. Director of University Relations and Marketing Cassie Mathes ...
Missouri Gubernatorial Candidate Dave Spence attended a rally for Joplin republicans Saturday. He tells News Talk KZRG one th...
A long-time booster of southwest Missouri has died. Chuck Surface passed away Wednesday night from cancer. He was 68. Surface...
A Crocker High School graduate donated a metal sculpture commemorating the May 2011 tornado to the City of Joplin today. Sawy...
Newt Gingrich says Todd Akin is needed in the US Senate. The former speaker of the House appeared at a campaign stop for Akin...
More than 30 volunteers from the Kansas City Royals, inclusing some current and former players and their Double-A team in Ark...
Missouri's two US Senate candidates squared off in a debate today in Columbia. Republican Todd Akin says he stands for fr...
Neither of Missouri's governor candidates support an effort to raise cigarette taxes and use that increase for education ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Neosho Thursday afternoon to talk about worker safety. He toured Holden Industries and tha...
If you like high school marching bands, you'll want to be in Webb City on Saturday. The 8th annual Webbstock Marching Fes...
Former presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich is coming to Missouri to raise money for Todd Akin's U.S. S...
A commission of legislators and citizens has been appointed to assess the damage done to the state's agriculture industry...
The recent rains have done wonders for Missouri American Water's supply in Joplin. External Affairs Manager Christie Barn...
Missouri American Water has re-opened its service center in Joplin. The new building replaces one that was destroyed in the M...
A new virus has been discovered in northwest Missouri, where in June 2009 it sickened two men who live miles apart. The Cente...
The City of Neosho is looking for a new finance director. Jane Obert was dismissed Friday, just days before her one year anni...
Stay in business or not stay in business? That's the question Missouri cattle farmers have been asking themselves because...
Missouri lawmakers have overridden Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill expanding religious exceptions for insurance cover...
Governor Jay Nixon says tax credit reform will be a priority issue when the Missouri Legislature convenes next year. Nixon sp...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon honored Joplin twice during his conference on economic development in St. Louis. Nixon gave the G...
A Joplin lawmaker is amonga newlegislative committeestudying child abuse and neglect in Missouri. State Representative BillLa...
A Missouri judge has upheld the ballot language of a proposed constitutional amendment on appointments to the state Supreme C...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has extended a state of emergency until November 15th because of the drought affecting the state....
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon began the general election campaign with a cash advantage over his Republican challenger. But busines...
Missouri's Republican nominee for governor wants a moratorium on "unnecessary travel" by state employees - star...
There's a new person in charge of the Freeman Foundation. Blake Bard comes to Freeman from the University of Arkansas, wh...
A beetle that has killed millions of ash trees in the eastern U.S. and parts of the South has now been detected in Kansas. Th...
The Boy Scouts of Missouri will be holding a scouting drive on September 6th. District Director Brian Haverstick tells News T...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin Monday to thank a local business for hiring veterans. Able Manufacturing received t...
Missouri Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dave Spence says Missouri's job climate isn't doing so well. That's n...
A major announcement from a business..and a Joplin landmark re-opening. Those are two events Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will...
U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a reported threat against Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman who has been critici...
The leader of the Republican Party wants MissouriSenate Candidate Todd Akinto resign from the campaign. National chairman Rei...
Missouri Republican senate candidate Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race. Calls for his ouster have come from Repub...
Congressman Todd Akin, Missouri's GOP Senate candidate, has come under fire for his comments over whether women can becom...
Southwest Missouri is experiencing some misrouting problems with E9-1-1 lines. We have been informed by AT&T that a fiber lin...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is touring the state's farms. She tells News Talk KZRG agriculture is a big part of Mis...
A new report says Missouri's unemployment rate edged higher last month while the number of nonfarm jobs declined.The Depa...
The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to set execution dates for six condemned killers, saying doing so is "premature&...
Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley is resigning several months before the end of his term. Tilley, a Republican from Perryv...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and his November opponent, Dave Spence, are both touting their commitment to stand up to the Obam...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is stressing her support for federal legislation funding crop insurance programs while her ...
The city of Joplin will lose a cloverleaf in exchange for a diamond.The interchange at I-44 and Rangeline road in Joplin will...
The Joplin Fire Department is looking for the cause of a house fire last night. Keith Stammer of the Fire Department tells Ne...
A new amendment to the Missouri Constitution on prayer and religious expression has already prompted a lawsuit.Missouri voter...
Fewer than one-fourth of Missouri's registered voters cast ballots in this year's primary elections.The secretary of ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon knows who he'll be facing in November. Businessman Dave Spence won the Republican primary Tue...
Work on the new Joplin High School is getting started, but it will be a while before you see signs of a building. Joplin Scho...
Two weeks ago, Missouri American Water asked Joplin customers to conserve water. Christie Barnhart of Missouri American Water...
Missouri election officials expect one in four registered voters to cast ballots in Tuesday's primary elections. The vote...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is forging ahead with his lawsuit against President Obama's federal health care...
Three Republican candidates for Missouri state office were in Joplin Thursday, trying to get more votes in next Tuesday's...
Missouri American Water's treatment plant was honored Tuesday. Spokeswoman Christie Barnhart tells News Talk KZRG they re...
A state commission tasked with figuring out how to improve Missouri's response to natural disasters heard testimony in Jo...
Is the overwhelming heat leading to price gouging? The Missouri Attorney General's Office thinks so and is warning of peo...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon visited the Joplin Regional Stockyards in Carthage today to announce $2.1-million in aid has ...
Joplin Area Habitat For Humanity and Community Partnership held a block party last night in part of Joplin that was devastate...
Members of the St. Louis Blues came to Joplin today to help build five homes for the Joplin Habitat for Humanity's "...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared an emergency because of the recent drought.The state disaster declaration Monday all...
If you're hoping for any kind of break in the heat, keep wishing. KZRG Chief Meteorologist John Wetherbee says it doesn&#...
Missouri American Water is asking Joplin residents to voluntarily cut down on using water. External Affairs Manager Christie ...
Missouri American Water in Joplin is increasing the amount of water it can hold at its impoundment on Shoal Creek. Christie B...
Missouri Republican Attorney General candidate Ed Martin has been campaigning in Neosho and Mount Vernon today. Martin tells ...
The Joplin Habitat for Humanity is gearing up for the next phase of the Governor's Joplin Challenge, which challenges all...
Missouri officials say state payrolls declined by 4,000 jobs in June while unemployment simultaneously decreased to 7.1 perce...
Former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed Sarah Steelman in Missouri's Republican U...
Governor Jay Nixon says Missouri farmers struggling against the drought will be eligible for low-interest loans and other fed...
Governor Jay Nixon visited Joplin today to help state and local officials celebrate the groundbreaking for a new Coca Cola fa...
A lawsuit claims Missouri's secretary of state has written an inaccurate and unfair summary of a November ballot measure ...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder was in Joplin this afternoon to announce he'll be leading a committee that will...
Missouri Governor Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have allowed employers to decline to provide coverage for abortion,...
Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder will be in Joplin Friday. He tells News Talk KZRG he'll be making an important announc...
A relatively new organization will be holding a fundraiser in Branson to build homes in Joplin next week. Linda Lonchar Cherr...
The heat is proving deadly for those living in Missouri. The number of Kansas City-area deaths being investigated as possibly...
Joplin Police don't have the primary suspect in last Friday's murder of Jacob Wages, but they have located another su...
A man accused of robbing the First State Bank on West 7th Street last month is in custody after robbing a bank in North Dakot...
Two years probation. That was the sentence given Monday to former Missouri Governor Roger Wilson for misusing money to make p...
Missouri 7th District Congressman Billy Long is facing two challengers in next month's Republican primary: Mike Moon and ...
Last week's Supreme Court decision on President Obama's health care law sparked a great increase in fundraising for R...
Missouri residents are beingencouraged to call a state consumer hotline for help if their electricity is shut off during the ...
If you're looking for a place to see fireworks on display this week, look no further. Today, you'll wan tto visitCraw...
Missouri is one of five states that has been granted a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law. Webb City Superintendent Doc...
Several athletes and staff from the University of Missouri came to Joplin Friday to help build houses for the Governor's ...
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster also weighed in on Thursday's Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama'...
People unhappy with Thursday's Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care law are making their feelings kn...
This is the time for small businesses in Missouri to create jobs and grow. That was Governor Jay Nixon's message Wednesda...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon will be in Joplin Wednesday afternoon. He'll sign a bill that gives a targeted tax deduction ...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election in 2012, says she will skip the De...
Voting has gotten under way for Missouri's primary elections, as Oklahoma voters also head to the polls. Today is the fir...
He fell nearly 100 feet and lived to talk about it. Oswego Police say 19-year-old Broc Lewis of Missouri was at Riverside Par...
A woman from Weir is awaiting sentencing for dealing meth. 43-year-old Leslie Harrison, also known as Leslie Stultz, was conv...
Missouri Governor Nixon has signed a bill that will provide more services for children with autism. Ozark Center For Autism C...
Missouri's public colleges and universities will be taking a state budget cut for the third straight year. Governor Jay N...
Missouri boaters who go out on the state's lakes and rivers this weekend could find themselves in hot water if they have ...
The University of Missouri is back in Joplin today, working to help rebuilding efforts in the wake of last year's deadly ...
The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a ban on newspapers for inmates at a southwestern Missouri jail. The ACLU s...
The 2012 St. Louis Rams rookie class traveled to Joplin today to help build homes and surprise the kids at the Joplin Boys an...
It may be legal today to buy and use fireworks elsewhere in Missouri, but you'll still have to wait until July 1st to do ...
Political signs are becoming a danger to voters on Missouri highways. Bob Edwards of MoDOT tells News Talk KZRG people have b...
A Missouri sheriff says his department responded to its first "domestic texting'' call after two people carried ...
Here's a heads-up for those of you planning to party this weekend: Joplin Police will have a DWI checkpoint. Sergeant Rus...
A Missouri egg production plant plans to expand near Neosho to hold up to 1 million birds. News Talk KZRG's Darrin Wright...
It’s a big day if you want to stop annoying sales calls and texts on your cell phone, as legislation that allows Missou...
An unusual airplane landed at Joplin Regional Airport Wednesday night. Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics of Kansas Ci...
Unemployment held steady in Missouri in May. The Department of Economic Development says the state unemployment rate is 7-poi...
A water main at 17th and Connecticut in Joplin is being replaced, and that could mean some traffic delays for a while. Christ...
It's tough to know who got more out of Friday's visit from the University of Missouri athletic department: the famili...
The number of cougars reported in Missouri last year was up significantly over recent years. Bill Graham, a spokesman for the...
More than 20 University of Missouri athletes are in Joplin today for the Governor's Joplin Habitat Challenge. They'll...
Despite some depressing numbers, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon remains bullish on the state's economy. Earlier this week, a...
Federal regulators have approved Ameren Missouri's plans to reduce its boundary along the Lake of the Ozarks to exclude m...
Commercial vehicles on the highways and interstates of Missouri will be getting some extra attention from state troopers this...
Volunteers are still wanted for Governor Nixon's Joplin Habitat Challenge. With the help of Missouri's pro sports tea...
Joplin Area Habitat For Humanity will have some extra help building homes Saturday. Habitat Executive Director Scott Clayton ...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder was in Joplin this afternoon for the re-opening of the 1502 Michigan Place apartmen...
The Big 12 men's basketball tournament will remain in Kansas City through 2016.The conference announced a two-year extens...
Missouri Republican US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman has been endorsed by State Senator Jason Crowell of Cape Girardeau. Cr...
The Missouri State Highway Patrol tells News Talk KZRG there were no boating fatalities in the state over the Memorial Day we...
He burned the body in a barrel and then hid the murder victim on some farmland between Neosho and Joplin, that's accordin...
The anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug for executions in Missouri. That...
Webb City High School got a good report card from US News and World Report. They've ranked Webb City the 16th best high s...
Missouri National Guard members have been disciplined for looting in Joplin after last year's EF-5 tornado. But the guard...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and First Lady Georganne Nixon stopped by one of the homes being built through the Governor's...
President Barack Obama and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon were the featured speakers Monday night at Joplin High School's gr...
Joplin High School's class of 2012 will graduate Monday night. The ceremony at Leggett and Platt Center will feature spee...
Joplin City Councilman Mike Woolston got a surprise at Monday's City Council meeting. He was given a proclamation by Mayo...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says he's not getting involved in a campaign to raise the state's lowest-in-nation cigare...
