FARAH SIDDIQI Missouri News Connection

Child care advocates are pushing for increased funding as the budget deadline approaches this Friday. Robyn Schelp, director of policy and advocacy for Kids Win Missouri, said ensuring increases to ...

Access to reduced-price medication is a necessity for many rural Missourians with low income. Rep. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, the Senate Floor Leader, said Big Pharma is trying to confuse ...

Missouri went through with its first execution of the year, as Brian Dorsey was put to death last night, just after 6 p.m. CT. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stop Dorsey’s ...

Missouri Democrats have filed legislation which would prompt a vote to return gun possession rules to local governments. The move was prompted by a deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super ...

Wednesday’s Kansas City Chiefs’ victory parade turned fatal, prompting gun-law activists to call for reform. One person died and three people are in custody following what was supposed to ...

A contentious congressional hearing on Wednesday saw a unanimous push for regulations on social media specifically related to children. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley – R-MO – pushed Meta CEO ...

While Missouri’s legislative session has just begun, child-care tax credits are at top of mind with a bipartisan House bill. HB 1488 takes a three-pronged approach to supplementing the ...

A Kansas state court judge has blocked several abortion-related restrictions, in a decision which is bound to have an effect in neighboring Missouri. It is being considered a win for the Center for ...

Some Missourians fear an increase in hate crimes in the wake of a six-year-old’s murder in Illinois this week – an incident authorities say was motivated by the Israel-Hamas war. The ...

An increase in child-care subsidy reimbursement rates up to 58% of market rate is being hailed as a big win for providers in Missouri. Sarah Gould is the early-childhood director for Community ...