3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (266+ words) KSMU Route 66 documentary to screen in Springfield Filmmaker John Paget will screen his feature length documentary this Saturday. On Saturday, the feature length documentary "Route 66: The Main Street of America," will have a special screening at Springfield’s Gillioz Theatre. From…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (240+ words) The Springfield Sister Cities Association will present the 30th annual Japanese Fall Festival Sept. 11-13 at Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park. The festival will include music, workshops, demonstrations and food vendors. This year’s headlining performers are championship yosakoi dance group Uzumaru. Lisa…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (659+ words) The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday morning denied a request from Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to pause its order requiring the Nov. 3 congressional election to be conducted using the districts in place for the 2024 election. Hoskins asked for a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (272+ words) Republican Candidate for Missouri House District 161, Thomas Ross, was arrested Wednesday. According to a statement from the office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, R. Matthew Price, Ross has been charged with “conspiring to distribute a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1709+ words) CAMDENTON — Polls had been open a few hours on primary day in August 2022 when Sophia Shore called her dad with a problem. She’d spent the summer running a long-shot campaign for Jill Carter, a family friend challenging an incumbent Republican…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (475+ words) A campaign underway in Springfield encourages people not to give money to people at the city’s intersections and, instead, donate to nonprofits that help the unsheltered community. Help Starts Here is a partnership of the City of Springfield, Community Partnership…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (361+ words) The Missouri Supreme Court set Sept. 2 for arguments in the appeals of two ballot measure cases, including a referendum on the state’s gerrymandered congressional map. Both measures were ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Cole County judge. The court took a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (304+ words) KSMU 4 amendments to Springfield City Charter will be on the November 3 ballot City Council approved placing the amendments on the ballot at its August 10 meeting. Springfield voters will decide four amendments to city charter on November 3. According to an ordinance…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1073+ words) The Missouri Constitution’s provisions allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature do not extend that power to laws establishing congressional districts, Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled Wednesday afternoon. Delivering his decision just a few hours after…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (882+ words) Missouri education officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for roughly $300 million more for public schools next year, setting up a potentially difficult budget fight as the state faces a projected revenue shortfall. The numbers are yet to be finalized, but…...