Mike Parson

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday visited Clyde Miller Career Academy in St. Louis, which offers training in hospitality, manufacturing and other fields besides preparing students for college. The governor said he'd like to see more of Missouri's high schools offer career training to help fill the state's nearly 150,000 open jobs.

The state will now shift to addressing the coronavirus as endemic rather than epidemic. The change will officially begin on Friday.

The Missouri House this week signed off on legislation that would require photo identification to cast a ballot.

Mike Parson is scheduled to headline a fundraiser on March 31 for Dave Schatz, the Missouri Senate's president pro tem.

Paula Nickelson, who started her new position Tuesday, had served as deputy director since Feb. 1 and has worked for the department for more than 22 years.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Fentem asked Lynelle Phillips, University of Missouri public health professor and Missouri Immunization Coalition Board president, if it's time for Missourians to learn to live with the coronavirus and whether the state is jumping the gun on its new plan.

The website security vulnerability discovered by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter had been a continual issue for the past 10 to 12 years.

Low pay rates exacerbated by the pandemic have left the facilities around the state short-staffed to the point they have empty beds while still having waiting lists.

Documents show that by mid-March, Missouri’s public health agencies would transition to treat the virus as endemic, like it does the seasonal flu, without daily reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

For two weeks before the state of emergency expired, healthcare organizations urged Gov. Parson to extend it or give them enough notice it was ending to make accommodations.