Missouri voters reject the idea of charging people fees to cover government's responsibilities. Are lawmakers listening?

Missouri’s ban on ranked-choice voting was paired with a provision outlawing noncitizen voting, despite the fact that it was already illegal.

January 2025 will mark the start of a new term for the recently elected leaders. The Republican party will hold a supermajority in both Missouri’s House of Representatives and Senate.

While passing Amendment 3 safeguards abortion rights in Missouri for now, health care providers say people are still worried about access to reproductive care under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Some Republican lawmakers want to limit — or possibly overturn — Amendment 3, which legalizes abortion, and Proposition A, which raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.

Trevor Hawkins, an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas, remembers how busy his job got when the state for a time imposed work requirements on Medicaid recipients: His office was swamped with frantic phone calls from people who said they couldn’t comply with the new rule because they weren’t healthy enough to work or had

Who voters cast their ballot for in the election last week is private, but is a resident's voting history public information?5 On Your Side already verified that this is true in Illinois, but is the information public record in Missouri?

The trustees of Missouri’s largest state employee retirement system voted Thursday to prohibit the use of pension funds for political contributions. The Missouri State Employees Retirement System board,

The Missouri Republican is known for advancing arguments made in Project 2025, including that the Comstock Act should prevent the mailing of abortion pills.

The not-for-profit group originally set up to pay for Gov. Mike Parson's 2021 inauguration gave $150,000 this week to the political action committee that helped get him elected.

Election reform advocates raised about $110 million for the statewide ballot measures, vastly outpacing their opponents, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance figures that could grow even larger as post-election reports are filed. Still, their promotional push wasn't enough to persuade most voters.