Springfield mayor's race officially has its first contender — serial entrepreneur Jeff Schrag, who aims to improve livability ...

Left unchecked, theocracy comes to dominate every realm of public and personal life. A reasonable separation of church and state checks that impulse to domination.

Arizona, Florida, New York and Nevada are among the states with upcoming abortion ballot initiatives. Democrats are counting ...

The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the ...

Missouri's sports betting ballot measure remains up in the air after a lengthy hearing resulted in no immediate action.

The investigation into an alleged relationship between a Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) corrections officer and an ...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, on Wednesday saw his latest bid to fund the government fail, taken down by his own right flank. He now has 11 days to figure out how to fund ...

She will also be on the ballot in Montana, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maine, Maryland and Missouri ... to Donald Trump in the latter election; the Green Party candidate ...

A Cole County Circuit Court judge rejected an attempt to invalidate an initiative petition on sports betting Friday, allowing ...

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft expects a definitive ruling on three pending lawsuits. Each lawsuit challenges an ...

The state has a grossly gerrymandered state legislature and congressional delegation, and it has been fighting over new maps ...