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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson announced an $83 million funding allocation for the Missouri Department of Transportation during his State of the State address on Wednesday, reflecting the need to strengthen Missouri’s infrastructure shared by local, state and federal leaders. MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna said the COVID-19 pandemic paused new developments in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan, but crews and contractors kept the momentum of the existing schedule going strong in Northeast Missouri and across the state. McKenna said support from Parson and the Gener...

Missouri lawmakers probe local emergency powers used to crack down on businesses by John Haughey, The Center Square  | January 25, 2021 09:00 AM Print this article The city of St. Louis Health Department ordered seven bars and restaurants to shutter their doors this week for violating COVID-19 public health orders. St. Louis Health Director Dr. Fredrick Echols notified the owners of the businesses that they had violated his health orders for mask-wearing and social distancing. All seven were closed immediately, four for 30 days and three — repeated violat...

Here are the latest COVID-19 updates around the metro area, and in Kansas and Missouri.

Missouri charter school expansion, tax-credit tuition vouchers bound for Senate floor by John Haughey, The Center Square  | January 22, 2021 08:30 AM Print this article A proposed bill that would allow charter school expansion and create a school choice tax credit scholarship passed its first hearing Thursday, but not before the measure morphed into an even larger omnibus package making it the 2021 session’s likely flagship education legislation. Senate Bill 55, filed by Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, was approved in a 5-4 vote Thursday by the Senat...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican senators in Missouri on Wednesday debated ways to check health officials' power in response to their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. One proposal...