CU will request Springfield City Council approval for a 6.6% electric rate increase over two years, amounting to an average ...

"And that long line there means…” That seems to be what Madame Small, a palm reader, is telling Wesley Glenn of Springfield, ...

Who is the best high school football player in the Springfield area? Vote in the News-Leader's fan poll entering the 2025 Missouri season.

Missouri State football's first FBS season will be challenging as it opens the year with USC, Marshall and SMU.

Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate humor into verse.

Tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill are projected to force Social Security cuts around 2032 now. Voters must pay attention, this writer says.

The administration has repeatedly cast the immigrants being targeted by ICE as criminals but data show most had no criminal ...

President Donald Trump has signaled that Missouri will likely move to redraw its congressional districts ahead of the 2026 ...

The funds set aside don't include money to cover the Nov. 4 election costs. No other question was set for the ballot as of ...

The city's proposed increase to the local lodging tax, which would help fund a Springfield convention center, goes to a public vote Nov. 4.

Former prison chaplain Cliff Rawley writes about the surprising transformation of a man of violence to a peaceful person.

The median home in Greene County listed for $324,950 in July, down 1.4% from the previous month's $329,499, an analysis of ...