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Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to a bill clarifying the way a vacancy is filled in the office of lieutenant gov...
Negotiations on the Kansas budget for the next two fiscal years have come to an abrupt halt after senators demanded a final o...
Missouri's 2013 legislative session has come to an end.The House and Senate each wrapped up their work Friday shortly aft...
The US House yesterday voted to repeal President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act. Missouri Congressman Billy Long was ...
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...
Republicans in the Kansas House have drafted a new plan for cutting income taxes in hopes of breaking stalemate on tax issues...
Missouri Senator Ron Richard appeared on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning. KZRG has been following the investigation ...
The Kansas Legislature's top Republican leaders are acknowledging that their private negotiations on tax issues have hit ...
The Missouri House has approved legislation barring the state Revenue Department from scanning the personal documents of driv...
Americans for Prosperity- Missouri, a group that supports limited government, less taxes and fiscal restraint for the governm...
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle says her chamber and the House are narrowing their differences over canceling a scheduled...
Governor Jay Nixon has indicated he's likely to veto legislation that would cut Missouri income taxes for businesses and ...
The big buzz in Washington this week was the hearings on last September's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. ...
The Oklahoma House has approved a $7.1 billion bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year, despite object...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to an income tax cut for businesses and individuals that could reduce state reve...
Missouri lawmakers have sent Governor Jay Nixon a spending plan that includes money for the state mental hospital, the Capito...
Governor Jay Nixon is warning of layoffs if legislators pass a budget that reduces money for Missouri's motor vehicle div...
The Missouri House is not planning to give Gov. Jay Nixon's administration data related to an attempted access of the lis...
Governor Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature's top GOP leaders are negotiating over additional cuts in income taxes ...
A $7.1 billion general appropriations bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year has cleared its first hu...
There won't be an election this August in Joplin to decide on whether to have curbside recycling. That election will now ...
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to finalize the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget. The House and Sena...
The Missouri House has passed a plan to increase funding for the state mental hospital, the Capitol and the park system.Democ...
The head of the Kansas Rifle Association says gun rights supporters in Kansas are ``all in'' for a new state law that...
MissouriRepublican lawmakers are raising new questions about whether Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's administration has tried...
Governor Sam Brownback says he's asked the Kansas higher education system to take on additional work, and it deserves to ...
A judge has expunged the arrest record of a former executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party.An order Friday by St....
A Missouri senator says a subpoena has been issued to a federal investigator who sought a list of Missouri concealed gun perm...
A bill passed by the Missouri Senate to grant $15-million to Joplin for road and curb repair after the May 2011 tornado i...
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office is warning legislators that some laws they passed this year could lead to ...
The Missouri House has passed legislation that would trim the state's income tax and raise the sales tax as part of an ec...
A gun bill has passed the Missouri House. House Bill 170 says any new Federal law that bans or restricts ownership of semi-au...
Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican legislative leaders have announced a plan to cut Oklahoma's top personal income tax rate ...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will visit Pittsburg State University Wednesday afternoon. PSU Director of Government and Commu...
An effort by Missouri Southern State University's president to remove mention of its international mission from state law...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law to block tax breaks for abortion providers and ban abortions perform...
The Missouri Senate has approved legislation barring the state Revenue Department from scanning personal documents shown by p...
Governor Nixon's decision to stop scanning and storing of documents related to concealed carry permits was good news to S...
The controversy over the release of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders' data to a federal government office continu...
Attorney General Chris Koster says he won't appeal a federal court ruling striking down a Missouri law that exempted mora...
The Missouri House speaker says lawmakers will take action if Governor Nixon fails to order the release of records in recent ...
A group of abortion rights activists delivered about 1,600 signed petitions to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's office urging ...
Newly released documents show Missouri has taken steps to build a database of driver's license information that would mee...
The Kansas Senate has approved legislation that would let people carry concealed weapons into more public buildings and allow...
The Kansas Senate has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that blocks tax breaks for providers and outlaws abortions solel...
Not very many people in Jasper County turned out to vote on Tuesday. County Clerk Bonnie Earl tells News Talk KZRG 8.34% of t...
Legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in bonds to bolster the Kansas pension system for teachers and government workers ha...
A Republican-led House committee has approved legislation that would expand Missouri's Medicaid program but not as greatl...
On Tuesday the Missouri Department of Revenue delivered thousands of documents to the State Senate regarding new driver's...
Kansas Senators have sent a bill to Governor Sam Brownback that would require residents who receive welfare and unemployment ...
Polls are open until 7 tonight across the Four States on this Election Day. Duquesne and Baxter Springs are among the cities ...
A State Senator from Joplin says the Missouri Senate will hold up a budget for the state Revenue Department until it gets ans...
The Missouri Senate gave first round approval Tuesday to a constitutional amendment bolstering certain gun rights. This after...
For the first time in over four years, both the US House and Senate have each presented a federal budget. Missouri Congressma...
The Kansas Senate has given final approval to a $14 billion budget for the next fiscal year that starts July 1.Thursday&#...
A three million dollar federal grant for rebuilding Franklin Technology Center will be a big help for rebuilding Joplin. So s...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to bill cutting sales and income taxes after rejecting a diversion of highway...
Missouri's unemployment rate inched up slightly in February although the state also posted gains in the number of jobs.Fi...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts Ju...
Kansas House members are preparing to debate a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
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...
A senior at Joplin's McAuley Catholic High School will attend college at West Point. Mitch Wear was appointed to the Mili...
Legislation giving the Kansas governor and lawmakers more power in appointing Court of Appeals judges is on its way to Govern...
Republican Governor Sam Brownback's plan to cancel a scheduled decline in the state sales tax has survived a vote in the ...
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...
A Kansas House committee has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that prevents groups providing abortion services from bei...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is up in arms about the Department of Revenue saving the personal information of an...
The Missouri House has endorsed the creation of several new tax breaks intended to lure high-tech businesses and foreign trad...
Oklahoma House Democrats and some school superintendents are renewing their opposition to plans by Republican leaders to slas...
The Missouri Senate's Majority Floor Leader is not happy with the revelation that the state Department of Revenue wants t...
Missouri House Republicans have given a resounding `no' to Democratic plans to expand Medicaid.Two separate House committ...
An Oklahoma Senate committee has approved a bill calling for an investigation into the state's care of people who are eli...
The Kansas Senate has approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution to prevent the courts from deciding disputes ov...
A Missouri House Democrat's plan would send colleagues to prison for proposing legislation limiting collective bargaining...
It isn't very often you'll find Republicans in favor of a tax, but that's what's happening in the Missouri Le...
President Obama's suggestion to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour isn't supported by Missouri Senator Roy Blun...
Baxter Springs residents are working to bring more attention to a Civil War battle that's missing from most history books...
Republican leaders in the Kansas House say there's very little support in their chamber for Governor Sam Brownback's ...
Proposed anti-gun legislation in the Missouri House doesn't look like it will be getting much support. State Representati...
Senate Republicans have blocked Chuck Hagel's nomination as Defense Secretary. While Hagel's nomination could be take...
The Missouri House has advanced a new effort to require voters to show photo identification at polling places. On Thursday, t...
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...
A Christian group that ministers to Kansas lawmakers is seeking prayers for what it calls dark spiritual sections of the stat...
Missouri Congressman Billy Long said there was some good in President Obama's State of the Union speech. The good was tha...
Governor Sam Brownback is meeting resistance to his tax plan because it promises to reduce individual income taxes in the fut...
Governor Nixon's State of the State speech has State Representative Charlie Davis of Webb City scratching his head. Davis...
Governor Mary Fallin says she has no plans to revisit her decision to reject an expansion of Medicaid in Oklahoma, saying ins...
Missouri US Senator Roy Blunt is one of those questioning Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for Defense Secretary. N...
The annual Newton and Jasper Counties Lincoln Day Dinner will be held Saturday, February 23rd in Joplin. Nick Myers, the Newt...
Missouri first-graders would have to take a gun safety course under a bill being considered by a state Senate committee.Sen. ...
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan is telling legislators that Kansas must further reduce individual income tax rates to re...
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 ...
Kansas legislators plan to take an unusually long spring break before returning to wrap up business this year.House Speaker R...
A bill about to be voted on in the Missouri House would give school districts the ability to opt out of having to pay the pre...
The United Way of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas has wrapped up its 2012 campaign. Director of Community Impact Kate...
The Missouri House this week passed a bill to change the way vacancies in statewide offices are filled. The bill would preven...
The Kansas Attorney General's office has been inundated with applications for concealed carry licenses in the first three...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing to eliminate an income tax deduction for the property taxes paid by home owners.Le...
Governor Sam Brownback has urged abortion opponents outside the Kansas Statehouse to ``keep marching'' and ``keep mov...
A controversial bill to arrest people trying to enforce President Obama's new gun laws is a topic of debate in the Missou...
A Missouri House bill aims to restrict the use of cash welfare benefits at casinos and liquor stores. The bill's sponsor,...
A Kansas Senate leader is preparing legislation to require drug testing for people who receive cash assistance from the state...
Lawrence County Sheriff Brad DeLay has sent a letter to President Obama about gun rights. DeLay says the letter was originall...
Two Missouri Republican lawmakers aren't pleased with President Obama's gun control proposals. Senator Roy Blunt issu...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is calling for a fresh round of aggressive cuts in state income taxes and changes in the state ...
Jay Nixon began his second term as Missouri Governor Monday by taking the oath of office in Jefferson City. The Democrat says...
The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature began today with a protest. About 100 people protested outside theStatehouseagains...
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts says he won't support President Barack Obama's nomination of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel...
It appears Missouri Congressman Billy Long's prediction on the fiscal cliff came true:"Nothing gets done here until ...
Dwindling hopes of avoiding the fiscal cliff now rest on an 11th-hour scramble involving a meeting at the White House today. ...
An economic consulting firm predicts Kansas would lose about 40,000 jobs next year if no deal is struck on the so-called fisc...
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...
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill spent more than $19 million on her re-election campaign but hasn't finished paying all...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon spent $15.5 million on his re-election campaign and still has hundreds of thousands of dollar...
The Kansas Senate's new leaders are receptive to redrawing the state's political boundaries again next year, even tho...
Governor Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both ``the smart thing'' and ``the right thing ...
Missouri House Republicans plan to sponsor campaign finance legislation designed to make it easier to track political spendin...
A documentary produced in Newton County has won an award. Steve Roark, President of the Newton County Tourism Council, tells ...
Lawmakers go back to work in Washington this week, with just days to figure out what to do about the soon-to-expire Bush Tax ...
2012 will go down as an odd year in the history of Baxter Springs. Mayor Jenifer Bingham resigned Tuesday, saying she didn...
A highly touted plan by Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse to design and build a series of next-generation nuclear reactors at ...
Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill says there’s no way around it...some of us are going to have to pay more t...
The Veterans Memorial at Missouri Southern State University was re-dedicated today. A new plaque honoring military servie mem...
Joplin State Senator Ron Richard was named Senate Majority Leader last week... and although he doesn't officially take th...
The 2012 election is now history. Some may have been disappointed or even dismayed by the results. William Delehanty, assista...
Northeast Oklahoma's new Congressman is a Republican. Markwayne Mullin defeated Democrat Rob Wallace in Tuesday's ele...
Lynn Jenkins will still represent Southeast Kansas in the US House. The Republican was re-elected in House District 2, defeat...
It's Election Day, with federal, state, and local offices all up for grabs. Newton County Clerk Kay Baum says you should ...
People are lining up across the Four States to vote today. Larry Addington of Joplin tells News Talk KZRG for him, this elect...
"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...
US Senator Claire McCaskill brought her re-election campaign to Joplin Thursday afternoon. She tells News Talk KZRG the choic...
Missouri's Attorney General made a campaign stop in Joplin today. Chris Koster told a crowd this morning what sets him ap...
Senator Claire McCaskill's 84-year-old mother has been hospitalized in St. Louis, forcing McCaskill's re-election cam...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin has raised about $1.6 million for his Senate bid in the months after party officials sough...
The drama in Noel continues. The town's Marshall and another deputy have resigned, just a few days after Mayor James Carr...
Former Arkansas First Lady Janet Huckabee was in Joplin Tuesday night campaigning for US Senate candidate Todd Akin. Followin...
Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin his getting some help from a large Arkansas family that has its own TV reality show.Akin&...
One of the biggest talking points from last night's Vice Presidential debate was Vice President Joe Biden's behavior-...
Republican challenger Dave Spence has filed a defamation lawsuit against Democratic Governor Jay Nixon over a campaign ad.The...
A Northeast Oklahoma congressional candidate will give Saturday's Weekly Republican Radio Address. House Speaker John Boe...
The strange situation surrounding the mayor of Noel continues. Noel Aldermen were forced to hold their regular City Council m...
Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill received almost $40 million of federal subsidies...
The state Board of Education is delaying the release of a new system that grades Oklahoma's schools.Officials had planned...
Everyone's got an opinion on who won Wednesday night's Presidential Debate. News Talk KZRG asked Missouri Southern As...
A collection of rare historical pieces from the Civil War will be on display in Joplin. An exhibit focusing on Missouri's...
Democratic leaders are questioning Governor Sam Brownback's decision to appoint a task force to find efficiencies in Kans...
Republican challenger Todd Akin is going on the offensive against Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill by claiming her husband'...
Attorney General Candidate Ed Martin's in Southwest Missouri today. Martin tells News Talk KZRG he'll be keeping up t...
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin says that Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill wasn't very ``ladylike'' in thei...
Gov. Sam Brownback is helping raise money for 14 Republican candidates for the Kansas Senate by playing host for a large fund...
Newt Gingrich says Todd Akin is needed in the US Senate. The former speaker of the House appeared at a campaign stop for Akin...
Neither of Missouri's governor candidates support an effort to raise cigarette taxes and use that increase for education ...
Missouri's two US Senate candidates squared off in a debate today in Columbia. Republican Todd Akin says he stands for fr...
Experts say Oklahoma is leading the nation in prescription drug abuse and that the problem will continue to get worse unless ...
Kansas Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee says she has been removed from her job by Governor Sam Brownback.Brownlee spoke to The ...
Former presidential candidate and House Speaker Newt Gingrich is coming to Missouri to raise money for Todd Akin's U.S. S...
Missouri lawmakers have overridden Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill expanding religious exceptions for insurance cover...
There's always some good that can come out of something bad. Keith Stammer, Joplin's Emergency Management Director, t...
Todd Akin's candidacy for US Senate may not be in as much trouble as it seemed a few weeks ago. Akin's comment about ...
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...
Missouri Congressman Billy Long has been in Tampa the past few days for the Republican National Convention. He tells News Tal...
The political action committee of the Missouri Farm Bureau has decided to reconsider its endorsement of Republican Congressma...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
The Mayor of Sheldon was arrested Friday. Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman tells News Talk KZRG what Robert Sewell is accuse...
The Republican National Convention will have a distinct Oklahoma flavor, with both Gov. Mary Fallin and Oklahoma City Mayor M...
Missouri Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dave Spence says Missouri's job climate isn't doing so well. That's n...
"We're going to be here through the November election and we're going to be here to win."Missouri Congressm...
Early voting begins Friday for voters casting ballots in Oklahoma's primary runoff election.The top race is in the 2nd Co...
U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a reported threat against Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman who has been critici...
He's not going anywhere. Missouri Congressman Todd Akin appeared on the Sean Hannity Show yesterday afternoon on News Tal...
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...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is touring the state's farms. She tells News Talk KZRG agriculture is a big part of Mis...
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 ...
While he faced some opposition in August Congressman Billy Long cleared the Republican Primary hurdle with relative ease, gra...
Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn isn't saying anything about his defeat in Tuesday's Republican primary. Randee Kais...
Fewer than one-fourth of Missouri's registered voters cast ballots in this year's primary elections.The secretary of ...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says turnout in the state's primary elections exceeded his expectations, with nearl...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon knows who he'll be facing in November. Businessman Dave Spence won the Republican primary Tue...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder will face former State Auditor Susan Montee in the November election.Kinder faced a...
Final numbers from Newton County.Sheriff: Incumbnet Ken Copeland 5499 (61%), Mike Langland 3481 (39%).County Commissioner 1: ...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been selected as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention in Florida later ...
Missouri election officials expect one in four registered voters to cast ballots in Tuesday's primary elections. The vote...
Three Republican candidates for Missouri state office were in Joplin Thursday, trying to get more votes in next Tuesday's...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is predicting that fewer than one in five voters will cast ballots in Tuesday's pri...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is preparing to offer his prediction for voter turnout in Tuesday's primary electio...
The Southwest Missouri Conservative Nework is having a candidate forum Thursday night, featuring some of the Republican candi...
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt was in Joplin this afternoon to meet with civic and business leaders to hear their concerns. One t...
A minister, an attorney and a farmer offer diverse backgrounds for Kansas Democrats in the Aug. 7 primary in the state's ...
A state Senate district innortheast Oklahoma will remain in Democratic hands after the Republican candidate pulled out of the...
Missouri Republican Attorney General candidate Ed Martin has been campaigning in Neosho and Mount Vernon today. Martin tells ...
Army officials say a Fort Riley soldier from southeast Kansas has died in Afghanistan. The 1st Infantry Division says 26-year...
Former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed Sarah Steelman in Missouri's Republican U...
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill raised about $2.6 million for her re-election campaign during the past quarter but spent n...
Today's the last day for Missourians to register to vote in the upcoming August primary. Secretary of State Robin Carnaha...
Two years probation. That was the sentence given Monday to former Missouri Governor Roger Wilson for misusing money to make p...
It may be a bit early, but State Representative Tim Jones is appointing committee chairs, if Republicans keep their majority ...
Missouri 7th District Congressman Billy Long is facing two challengers in next month's Republican primary: Mike Moon and ...
A Joplin man has pleaded guilty to running an illegal online gambling operation. 57-year-old William Lisle was indicted on th...
Last week's Supreme Court decision on President Obama's health care law sparked a great increase in fundraising for R...
One of the talking points in this election year is that the US Senate hasn't passed a budget in over three years, yet Mis...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill campaigned in Nevada and Joplin Monday as she seeks a second term in Washington. The Democr...
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...
Oklahoma voters will have to go back to the polls to choose candidates in the 2nd District Congressional election. No candida...
Ottawa County Sheriff Terry Durborow moved a step closer to being re-elected Tuesday. He won the Democratic primary, defeatin...
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...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin says Monday's US Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law is "a mixed ba...
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law gives Kansas legislators a g...
Voters seem to be connecting with US Senate Candidate John Brunner, as the latest polls show he's got a big lead over fel...
Missouri's public colleges and universities will be taking a state budget cut for the third straight year. Governor Jay N...
A dental college in Kansas? That's the suggestion from a task force appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The task fo...
Three million dollars. That's how much Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is spending on TV ads for the month before the N...
Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren has a job lined up after his term ends later this year. The Second District Democrat says he&#...
Kansas education officials say negotiations with the federal government are moving the state closer to obtaining a waiver fro...
Two Democrats have filed to run against Kansas Republican Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins. Bob Eye, an attorney from Lawrence, and...
The Kansas attorney general's office paid outside lawyers more than $644,000 to defend anti-abortion laws enacted las...
Kansas officials will hold two public hearings this month on the governor's plan to overhaul the state's $2.9 bil...
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich is beginning a review of the state Senate. The last audit of the Legislature was completed in 2...
Despite some depressing numbers, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon remains bullish on the state's economy. Earlier this week, a...
An Army private from Oklahoma accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history will be spending more time in...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin says the situation in Syria is dangerous and the US needs to stay away."You've got on...
McDonald County officials are planning a party to celebrate news that the county courthouse has been placed on the National R...
Is there lefover good luck in an RV? Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill hopes so. Her campaign is leasing an RV that fellow Se...
Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal is retiring from office.The Hutchinson Republican announced his retirement Friday as leg...
Jasper County's Prosecutor wants the Attorney General's office to look into a controversy involving Sheriff Archie Du...
Missouri Republican US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman has been endorsed by State Senator Jason Crowell of Cape Girardeau. Cr...
Governor Mary Fallin has signed into law a $6.8 billion budget bill to fund Oklahoma state government for the fiscal year...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is acknowledging a deal to cut the state's income tax won't be reached before lawmakers...
The Missouri House has spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer money on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust...
Governor Mary Fallin and leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature are nearing an agreement on a $6.6 billion for state spendin...
You may want to give yourself some extra travel time today. The Joplin Police Department tells News Talk KZRG that there will...
A message on a T-shirt given to students in Sarcoxie has become controversial. Fifth graders in Sarcoxie's DARE program w...
Kansas legislators have given final approval to a $14.3 billion budget, allowing them to close out a contentious annual s...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and the Republican-controlled Legislature have reached an agreement on a nearly one-half of 1 p...
If your dog or cat isn't vaccinated against rabies, you'll need to take them to the vet. The Missouri Senate has give...
The Kansas Legislature has given final approval to a bill aimed at bolstering the long-term financial health of the state'...
Kansas House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a new tax-cut plan that backs off aggressive reductions approved by lawmak...
A Missouri state senator was being examined at a Jefferson City hospital after becoming light-headed during a debate on educa...
Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are back at work on a new state budget. Talks resumed today after the conferees ...
Secretary of State Kris Kobach is asking a federal court to settle political redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature....
Legislation allowing Missouri school districts to sell advertising space on buses has been stopped by a Senate committee.The ...
Legislation allowing Missourians to add their cellphone numbers to the state's No Call List for telemarketers is on its w...
The Kansas Senate has postponed debate on a bill for redrawing its 40 districts after an angry meeting of majority Republican...
Legislative negotiators in Kansas have suspended talks on a new state budget with major issues still unresolved.House and Sen...
Missouri lawmakers have sent the governor legislation prohibiting workers from suing each other for accidental on-the-job inj...
Senate leaders are unveiling a revenue-neutral plan to slash the income tax by one-half of 1 percent over the next two years ...
Missouri's unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a point in April. It's at 7-point-3 percent, the lowest it's been...
Oklahoma's State Republican Party convention turned raucous with supporters of Texas congressman Ron Paul as the GOP pres...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is conceding that state legislators have effectively killed his proposal to require fir...
Missouri lawmakers have sent the governor a $24 billion budget a day ahead of a constitutional deadline. The budget given...
A bill to allow Oklahomans who receive a concealed carry permit to openly carry holstered firearms is heading to Governor Mar...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin welcomed Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to the Sooner State and promised her ``ful...
Governor Sam Brownback says Kansas legislators should keep working on tax issues even though they've already sent him a b...
The Kansas House has approved Secretary of State Kris Kobach's proposal to require first-time voters to prove their U.S. ...
The Tea Party Express rolled into Joplin Thursday afternoon with its message of electing a new President in 2012. Tea Party E...
The largest Political Action Committee in the Tea Party movement will be in Joplin this evening (May 3rd). Sal Russo, founder...
Missouri lawmakers have delayed formal negotiations on the state budget until at least Thursday. A budget conference committe...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has approved a plan by the state Department of Education to set up an A-through-F grading syste...
Missouri lawmakers have endorsed legislation intended to make the timing of yellow traffic signals more consistent. The bill ...
The Kansas Senate has approved a plan for redrawing its 40 districts, but revisions aimed at appeasing conservative Republica...
Republicans in the Oklahoma Senate have voted unanimously to re-elect President Pro Tem Brian Bingman of Sapulpa to another t...
Kansas officials say they're relieved the federal government has abandoned proposed rules restricting farm work by childr...
The Mayor of Baxter Springs saw her controversial move to replace the city's police chief and city clerk fail last night,...
Missouri teens would need their parents' permission to use tanning facilities under a bill endorsed by the state House. T...
Former Missouri Gov. Roger Wilson says he wanted to report two campaign contributions that landed him in legal trouble but wa...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has prevailed in Missouri's regional Republican conventions. Romney won hal...
A spokesman for Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin says she's ``flattered'' to be mentioned as a possible vice preside...
Richard Davidson's getting another term as Mayor of Neosho. The City Council unanimously reappointed him last night, as w...
Missouri added about 4,800 jobs in March as its unemployment rate remained steady. Today's figures from the state Departm...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says he raised $1.7 million this past quarter, helping build a campaign account of more than ...
Less than one-half of one percent of Missouri's registered voters participated in the Republican caucuses that served as ...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin got two notable endorsements for his US Senate campaign Thursday. Minnesota Congresswoman Mich...
Former Missouri Governor Roger Wilson has pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to an illegal political donation made af...
Things are apparently getting heated in Baxter Springs politics, as reports say the city's mayor has locked the City Cler...
Sarah Steelman has an interesting backer in her US Senate campaign: Lieutenant Colonel Robert McFarlane, a National Security ...
Democratic Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster reports raising more than $890,000 for his re-election campaign during ...
Republican US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman brought her campaign to Joplin Tuesday night. Steelman told the Southwest Pachy...
Republican US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman brought her campaign to Joplin Tuesday night. Steelman told the Southwest Pachy...
What now? That's what Rick Santorum's supporters are wondering after the former Pennsylvania Senator dropped out of t...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill enjoyed a strong fundraising effort to start 2012. McCaskill's campaign says she raised...
Prior to the Joplin City Council's vote for Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem, Mayor Mike Woolston presented several Keys to the Ci...
Joplin has a new Mayor today."I just sensed that the Council wanted a change of direction for one reason or another, and...
Joplin Mayor Mike Woolston wants a second term. The Joplin City Council will choose who the next Mayor will be tonight at the...
Missouri Lawmakers are talking about a plan to give veterans accused of relatively minor crimes an alternative to jail or pri...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin gave Saturday's Republican response to President Obama's weekly radio message. She said...
The Vernon County Republican party is having a fundraiser tonight (April 6) in Nevada. Jerry Wadel, chairman of the County Re...
Embarrassing. That's what Missouri US Senator Claire McCaskill thinks of the state's 17 cents per pack cigarette tax....
A Missouri Senate committee wants to seek federal stimulus money to help unemployed workers finish their college education. T...
47 members of the Missouri House have endorsed Sarah Steelman for US Senate. That's about half of the number of Republica...
The chairman of Oklahoma's House Appropriations Committee says a deal has been reached with the Senate on a $200 mill...
