The National Forest Service will not release details on the number or job duties of people let go from the Mark Twain and Shawnee National Forests.

A local official is urging St. Louisans to get out and vote early as turnout at the polls is low.

Missouri officials doubt the state could stop accepting Medicaid expansion applicants if the federal government provides less money.

The former Illinois governor has been undergoing chemotherapy after a diagnosis last month, he told the Sun-Times. “I’m hopeful that I’ll be around, but you just don’t know at this point. This, historically, has been an extremely deadly cancer.”

Tony Kirchner says St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery defamed him Saturday in a statement in which Montgomery said Kirchner was emotionally unstable and potentially dangerous.

The group Coalition Life in 2023 sued the southern Illinois city to upend a measure prohibiting demonstrators and other groups from gathering 100 feet from medical facilities, including abortion providers.

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected speeding up the process to begin sports betting.

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day.

County officials say the online payments are part of an effort to transform how to pay bond and will save people a trip to Clayton.

Speaker Jon Patterson said he expects the House to consider legislation clarifying divorce law as well as bills related to child care.