Too many detainees and too few staff have pushed the City Justice Center and County Jail in St. Louis to a breaking point.

A new report reveals an online campaign, likely originating from China, aimed at discrediting Missouri Attorney General ...

Missouri’s fourth-largest school district sued the state Monday to prevent establishment of a new charter school in Boone ...

Several bills filed ahead of the 2026 legislative session seek to reduce the backlog or get people mental health treatment ...

A Cole County judge put off a deciding whether all signatures submitted to force a vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered ...

Missouri’s Republican lawmakers seem perfectly comfortable at ignoring that reality if it is convenient or aids in pushing a ...

Missouri’s referendum system exists to ensure lawmakers can’t insulate themselves from accountability. Republicans shouldn't ignore that.

Joplin officials recently passed an ordinance banning the practice after noticing out-of-state vehicles dropping off homeless ...

Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.

The Independent has documented a pattern of well-connected groups flooding the microbusiness lottery by recruiting people to ...

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even ...

A federal judge Monday refused to back Missouri’s Republican leaders efforts to block a statewide vote on a gerrymandered ...