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Governor Sam Brownback is telling Kansas legislators that it's time for them to resolve their differences on tax issues a...
Wichita-based Via Christi Health says tough finances are forcing it to eliminate 350 to 400 jobs at its facilities throughout...
Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are moving closer to a deal on canceling all or part of a scheduled drop in the ...
Negotiations on the Kansas budget for the next two fiscal years have come to an abrupt halt after senators demanded a final o...
Oklahoma's unemployment rate is now below 5%. The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission says the state's unemployme...
Republicans in the Kansas House have drafted a new plan for cutting income taxes in hopes of breaking stalemate on tax issues...
A jury has convicted the founder of a Kansas City, MO company and four of his associates of cheating investors by selling mil...
The Kansas Legislature's top Republican leaders are acknowledging that their private negotiations on tax issues have hit ...
Freeman Health System is getting into the produce business. They're having farmers markets twice a week through September...
Americans for Prosperity- Missouri, a group that supports limited government, less taxes and fiscal restraint for the governm...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been pushing for a tax cut for two years. Today she signed a bill to cut the state's to...
Missouri lawmakers passed an income tax cut late last week... but there are no guarantees it'll survive. State Representa...
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 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...
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 Missouri House has passed legislation that would trim the state's income tax and raise the sales tax as part of an ec...
"I would say you'll see dirt flying within a six month period of time."David Wallace with Joplin's master d...
Plans for Joplin's redevelopment after the May 2011 tornado continue moving along. David Wallace with the city's mast...
Unemployment rose slightly in Kansas in March despite a drop of more than 1,300 applications for initial unemployment benefit...
Wednesday night, the Joplin School Board approved 18 bids toward the construction of the new high school and Franklin Technol...
Missouri lawmakers are looking to renew an economic development program that has provided about $120 million of tax credi...
Missouri is moving forward with a reorganization of several state agencies.The Legislature did not object, so three executive...
Neosho is going to be a busy place the next couple days. Missouri's Largest Garage Sale will take place Friday and Saturd...
The Kansas jobless rate held steady last month at 5.5 percent, the same as in January but lower than in February 2012. The Ka...
Another business destroyed by the May 2011 tornado has returned to Joplin's Range Line Road. Joplin business leaders cele...
The Kansas Senate has given final approval to a $14 billion budget for the next fiscal year that starts July 1.Thursday&#...
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...
A Four States business has won a national award. Crossland Construction of Columbus took second place in the building divisio...
Kansas House members are preparing to debate a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
The Joplin City Council has hired a company to handle the bonds for the City's TIF district. Monday night, the Council hi...
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones was in Joplin this morning meeting with business leaders. One big topic was a bill passed in...
The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning against working with a man accused of committing fraud against Joplin tornado...
Republican Governor Sam Brownback's plan to cancel a scheduled decline in the state sales tax has survived a vote in the ...
Missouri senators have passed legislation that would cut income taxes for residents and businesses but raise the state sales ...
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...
Rates will be going up for Empire District Electric customers.The Missouri Public Service Commission said Wednesday that it h...
Republican leaders in the Kansas House say there's very little support in their chamber for Governor Sam Brownback's ...
Cherokee County has settled with a company that had planned to build a casino but pulled out of the deal. Penn National Gamin...
A Pittsburg company is planning a $1 million expansion and more hiring to respond to a growing market.Officials at Atkins...
Governor Sam Brownback is meeting resistance to his tax plan because it promises to reduce individual income taxes in the fut...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it received a record number of initial gun license applications last month.OS...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has reversed an $8.5 million cut to public colleges and universities because of improving sta...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was a guest on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning, talking about proposals made in his Stat...
Researchers for the Kansas Legislature are projecting that Governor Sam Brownback's plan for more income tax cuts would c...
The Joplin City WIC office says it's been approved to get state funding for the rest of the 2013 fiscal year. That means ...
Joplin's unemployment situation continues to shine. The US Department of Labor's December statistics show a 5.3 perce...
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan is telling legislators that Kansas must further reduce individual income tax rates to re...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income adults and authorize hundreds ...
The chairman of the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission is suggesting a 1-cent sales tax for 10 years that would ...
The city of Pittsburg has agreed to contribute $5 million toward an indoor event center and track to be built at Pittsbur...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin will urge lawmakers to consider a one-time tax cut with no offsetting loss of exemptions or ded...
They got the Tax Increment Financing District for the redevelopment of the City of Joplin approved: now what? Master Develope...
Budget recommendations from Kansas Governor Sam Brownback would leave total state spending flat after two years.Brownback out...
Rebates on natural gas furnaces and water heaters have been extended by the Missouri Public Service Commission. Jason Fulp of...
Gas prices in 2012 were the most expensive on record in Oklahoma, and AAA says the prices in the new year are uncertain.The O...
If you're an Empire District Electric customer and want to sound off on a proposed rate increase, you'll get that cha...
It appears Missouri Congressman Billy Long's prediction on the fiscal cliff came true:"Nothing gets done here until ...
Some economists estimate Oklahoma will begin the new year on stronger footing than many other states that are yet to recover ...
Dwindling hopes of avoiding the fiscal cliff now rest on an 11th-hour scramble involving a meeting at the White House today. ...
The city of Pittsburg's economic development will be headed up by the man in charge of their Chamber of Commerce. Chamber...
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...
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 Kansas Legislature's research staff has revised its projections for the budget shortfall facing the state next year, ...
Starting January 1st, McDonald County businesses that sell alcohol will have some competition. Benton County, Arkansas, which...
A Joplin-area business has broken ground on a new headquarters. By next summer, Innovative Objects will have a new three-stor...
Missouri House Republicans plan to sponsor campaign finance legislation designed to make it easier to track political spendin...
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 ...
Pittsburg is looking for a new director of economic development. Mark Turnbull is retiring on December 15th after five years ...
Newton County isn't getting as much sales tax revenue as it did a few months ago. Presiding County Commissioner Marilyn R...
Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill says there’s no way around it...some of us are going to have to pay more t...
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says he's opposed to higher tax rates that President Obama favors as a way to cut the federal ...
The City of Joplin and master developer Wallace Bajjali will have two public meetings this month to discuss a plan to pay for...
Kansas revenue forecasters predict the state will collect nearly $705 million less in the next fiscal year than it will t...
American Eagle will be getting a lower federal subsidy for flying to and from Joplin. American Eagle's bid for Essential ...
Freeman Hospital has agreed to pay $9-point-3 million to resolve allegations it violated federal law by paying incentives...
36 cents. That's how much the price of a gallon of gas has dropped in Missouri over the last month. The statewide average...
The Jasper County Commission has come up with a way to manage a fund set up by the Sheriff's Office for charitable acts. ...
Monday night the Joplin City Council got an update from its master developer. David Wallace of the firm Wallace Bajjali told ...
Empire District Electric's Riverton plant is making a transition from a coal-fired plant to one where natural gas is used...
The Jasper County Commission has closed a fund the Sheriff's Department had set up for charitable projects like the annua...
Seven years after closing a former military installation, southeastern Kansas officials are preparing to start a new era of r...
Economic researchers at Wichita State University are forecasting about two percent employment growth in Kansas next year.The ...
Neosho residents heard how their city is doing at a town hall meeting last night. Mayor Richard Davidson tells News Talk KZRG...
An economic expert spoke with the Joplin Regional Prosperity Initiative leadership this morning at the Joplin Chamber of Comm...
A Joplin business gave back to schools in Joplin, Carthage, and Seneca today. Haley Carter of Oasis Salon and Day Spa tells N...
Stay in business or not stay in business? That's the question Missouri cattle farmers have been asking themselves because...
Governor Jay Nixon says tax credit reform will be a priority issue when the Missouri Legislature convenes next year. Nixon sp...
Joplin's City Manager wants to boost the pension fund for public safety employees by $1-million.Mark Rohrtells News T...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon honored Joplin twice during his conference on economic development in St. Louis. Nixon gave the G...
There's always some good that can come out of something bad. Keith Stammer, Joplin's Emergency Management Director, t...
Missouri's Republican nominee for governor wants a moratorium on "unnecessary travel" by state employees - star...
Neosho's City Council is moving forward on passing a budget for fiscal year 2013. The Council passed the budget on first ...
A Joplin manufacturing company made a big expansion announcement Friday. Governor Jay Nixon was on hand to deliver the newsat...
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks is still taking applications for grants from the Joplin Tornado Recovery Fund. Foundat...
Missouri Congressman Billy Long is touring businesses in Joplin, Webb City, Neosho and Carthage today as part of his "Jo...
A new report says Missouri's unemployment rate edged higher last month while the number of nonfarm jobs declined.The Depa...
Missouri House Speaker Steven Tilley is resigning several months before the end of his term. Tilley, a Republican from Perryv...
Some 400 volunteers came to Joplin Saturday to build a playground at Head Start. Many of those volunteers came from Midland L...
The Joplin City Council held a special meeting this afternoon. City Attorney Brian Head tells News Talk KZRG it had to do wit...
Leaders in Vinita say 180 people will be out of work after a manufacturing plant moves its operations to Texas.J.C. Kinder, t...
Missouri officials say state payrolls declined by 4,000 jobs in June while unemployment simultaneously decreased to 7.1 perce...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has spent the last few days in Germany. He and Commerce Secretary Pat George have been on a tra...
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill raised about $2.6 million for her re-election campaign during the past quarter but spent n...
Webb City officials are trying to get part of the town placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Parts of Webb City...
"There's currently $75 in the fund."That's what Jasper County Auditor Richard Webster says about the Sh...
The Kansas State Board of Education is requesting an additional $450 million in state spending on public schools for the ...
State finance officials say Oklahoma is expected to make a record $306 million deposit into its Rainy Day Fund this week ...
It may be a bit early, but State Representative Tim Jones is appointing committee chairs, if Republicans keep their majority ...
Empire District Electric wants a rate increase. Empire has asked the Missouri Pubic Service Commission for a 5-point-3 percen...
Tellers at the Cornerstone Bank in Lanagan foiled a bank robbery yesterday. According to McDonald County Sheriff Robert Evens...
This is the time for small businesses in Missouri to create jobs and grow. That was Governor Jay Nixon's message Wednesda...
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...
Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren has a job lined up after his term ends later this year. The Second District Democrat says he&#...
AmeriCorps will be helping Joplin rebuild for the next three years. Congressman Billy Long made the announcement Wednesday.&q...
A Pittsburg business has been recognized as the Governor's Exporter of the Year. Pitsco, Incorporated received the award ...
Unemployment held steady in Missouri in May. The Department of Economic Development says the state unemployment rate is 7-poi...
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 Auditor Tom Schweich says some state agencies hurried to spend money near the end of the budget year. In a report ex...
Even with crude oil and natural gas prices dropping, Oklahoma's state revenue collections continue to rise. State Treasur...
McDonald County officials are planning a party to celebrate news that the county courthouse has been placed on the National R...
Governor Mary Fallin says her plan to cut and eventually eliminate Oklahoma's personal income tax was doomed by intense l...
Governor Mary Fallin has signed into law a $6.8 billion budget bill to fund Oklahoma state government for the fiscal year...
Governor Mary Fallin and leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature are nearing an agreement on a $6.6 billion for state spendin...
Kansas legislators have given final approval to a $14.3 billion budget, allowing them to close out a contentious annual s...
An Alba man has pleaded guilty to robbing three banks. 52-year-old Michael Manis admits robbing the US Bank in Webb City on F...
Missouri's attorney general has charged a Lebanon, Missouri-based company with defrauding Joplin homeowners after last Ma...
Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are back at work on a new state budget. Talks resumed today after the conferees ...
Newton County's road districts should start seeing some money from the road sales tax voters approved last November soon....
Legislative negotiators in Kansas have suspended talks on a new state budget with major issues still unresolved.House and Sen...
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...
Joplin residents had a chance to look at the city's comprehensive plan at an open house last night at City Hall. Planning...
Walmart, Chick-Fil-A and Walgreens are just a few of the businesses along Range Line that were destroyed in last May's to...
It's been over a month since the City of Joplin hired the Wallace Bajjali firm to take over as master developer of tornad...
People who work for the City of Joplin will be getting a raise. The City Council approved a three percent raise at this week&...
The Joplin Recovery Fund will award two grants on Tuesday. Lafayette House will receive $100,000 for a domestic violence ...
If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, it will run through Mid-Missouri. Senator Roy Blunt supports the idea, saying we should...
The Jasper County Commission approved an $861,000 contract for jail repairs with an Alabama company yesterday, even thoug...
AAA Oklahoma says the average price of a gallon of gas has fallen 8 cents in the state during the past week. The statewide av...
Area business leaders and broadband stakeholders met at the Joplin Public Library today to discuss plans to make broadband in...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and officials of two energy companies are preparing to make an announcement that could include pl...
Your internet service in Joplin will be a little more expensive. Cable One plans to raise rates within the next month. Genera...
Missouri added about 4,800 jobs in March as its unemployment rate remained steady. Today's figures from the state Departm...
Missouri lawmakers are still trying to fine-tune the next fiscal year's budget. State Representative Charlie Davis says t...
Kansas officials have raised their forecast of state revenue through the middle of next year by $252 million. Economists ...
The Neosho School District will have to start looking for a new superintendent. Dr. Richard Page has announced he'll be t...
Four dollar a gallon gas is on its way to Missouri. Mike Wright of AAA Missouri says average gas prices in the western part o...
The Jasper County Commission will be paying almost twice as much as they wanted to on repairs to the County Jail in Carthage....
Embarrassing. That's what Missouri US Senator Claire McCaskill thinks of the state's 17 cents per pack cigarette tax....
Voters in Columbus, Frontenac and Carl Junction all passed issues on the ballot related to taxes yesterday. In Carl Junction,...
Delaware County residents will be paying an extra half cent sales tax after voting overwhelmingly for the tax Tuesday. More t...
