Republican congressional candidate Jason Smith missed three-fifths of the Missouri House's votes before the final day of this year's legislative session, while his Democratic opponent, Steve Hodges, missed about one-fifth of the votes.

Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon began his second term with ambitions to expand Medicaid coverage, cap campaign contributions and lengthen the school year. But those priorities ran into a wall of opposition from the largest Republican legislative majority...

Fees for Phelps County residents who want to use the Rolla Animal Shelter to dispose of unwanted animals will more than double if the Rolla City Council approves an ordinance recommended by Police Chief Mark Kearse.

If you attended a one-room school in Phelps County or even outside the county, you’re invited to an annual school reunion Friday night, May 24, at Matt’s Steakhouse.

A special election to break the tie that occurred in the Edgar Springs North Ward alderman race in the April 2 municipal election will take place Tuesday.

“Just roll with it.” That was the advice that Dawn Wilking, upper Newburg Middle School English teacher, gave to the graduating class of seniors at Newburg High School Sunday afternoon during their graduation ceremony.

It sounds like a bad movie, doesn't it? Honeybees that turn into mummies.

This past week, the Rolla Police Department Crisis Negotiation Team took first place in the 2013 Missouri Association of Crisis Negotiators (MACN) Crisis Negotiation competition held in Kansas City, Kan.

Mark Twain wrote an essay in the spring of 1874 titled “The Temperance Insurrection” about women who did not have the right to vote but had the right to express themselves, so they publicly protested the ready supply of alcohol. He poked...

An eighth-cent sales tax would generate money for both The Centre and city parks, not just The Centre, as reported Wednesday.

Earlier this week, the city of Edgar Springs became the eighth city in the state of Missouri to be named a Purple Heart City.