Images from the Class 5 District 7 softball championship game between Grain Valley and Blue Springs South on Oct. 20, 2025, at Truman High ...

The most popular idea for controlling property tax bills, the chairman of a Missouri House committee said Monday, is to set a separate tax rate for each of four types of property subject to the annual ...

Grain Valley softball players mob pitcher Molly Jones, second from left, to celebrate their 7-4 victory over Blue Springs South in the Class 5 District 7 championship game Monday at Truman High School ...

Back in 2007, President George W. Bush was being challenged on his opposition to the Children’s Health Insurance Program – which provides health coverage for children in families too poor to afford ...

As the White House threatens to send the National Guard into more U.S. cities, its rationale seems to vary by place – and by day.

The parents of the 3-year-old boy who fell to his death July 2024 at the Independence Towers apartment building received probation but will not serve prison time after they reached a plea agreement ...

Independence will take over police dispatch services for the neighboring city of Sugar Creek starting in December, after the Independence City Council approved an agreement Monday.

Jackson County Public Health will host a free drive-thru flu vaccination clinic Friday and First United Methodist Church of Blue Springs, 301 S.W. Woods Chapel Road.

Kansas City police are investigating after a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper shot and injured a suspect Monday night who had been in a police chase that started in Independence.

The Fort Osage boys soccer team is either one win or one opponent’s loss away from clinching the Suburban White Conference title.

Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in U.S. courtrooms, threatening the future of the ...

Thousands gathered in cities and towns all over Missouri Saturday at No Kings demonstrations to speak up against the many ways they believe the current administration – both at the federal and state ...