MO State News

KANSAS CITY – The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the Midwest Region advanced 0.8 percent in April, the Kansas City office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.     The energy index was up 5.7 percent, led by higher prices for gasoline. The index for all items less […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The cost of hiring fieldwork in Missouri has risen an average of 9 percent  since 2023, according to an update to University of Missouri Extension’s Custom Rates for Farm Services in Missouri.     Notable changes include increases in fertilizer and chemical application rates. Since 2023, reported charges in these categories have risen

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources thanks all those who participated in the topic solicitation and discussion related to the upcoming 2028 Listing Methodology Document (LMD). The department greatly values public participation in the development of each LMD.   The department will hold a public meeting on Monday, May 18, 2026, from 10

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court’s stay of a federal regulation that removed the longstanding in-person dispensing requirement for the chemical abortion drug mifepristone. The stayed rule, issued in 2023 by the Biden-era

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, sent a letter to UCLA Chancellor Dr. Julio Frenk and UCLA Dean Michael Waterstone demanding answers following recent violations of students’ First Amendment and civil rights following the disruption of a student event hosted by the Federalist Society. On April

BOSTON, Mass. – Average gasoline prices in Missouri have risen 17.4 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.18/g Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are 48.0 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.35/g higher than a year ago. The national average price

Column by Rob Jones, director of Integrated Marketing Communications, University of Missouri Extension, and Sarah Kennedy, field specialist in community development, MU Extension.   When we talk about infrastructure, most people think of roads, bridges, and broadband. Those systems matter because they connect people to opportunity and allow businesses to operate efficiently. Childcare plays a

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows turkey hunters checked 45,475 birds during Missouri’s 2026 regular spring turkey season, April 20 through May 10. Top harvest counties for the regular season were Macon with 979 birds harvested, Callaway with 926, and Franklin with 879.   Ste. Genevieve County hunters