Missouri’s lieutenant governor promoted off-shore drilling during a parade around the Midland Empire today.
“Drill here. Drill now and pay less,” he repeated to the Northwest Missouri Republican Club at an evening meeting at the Moila Shrine Temple in St. Joseph.

A Nebraska man handled his tractor-trailer like a jungle gym Friday as he hastily crawled all over its purple cab and body at Farris Truck Stop this week. Time is money, Mark Geyer said. If discussions of a lower national speed limit come to fruition, he may have to pick up the pace even more during pit stops.

Everyone deserves a seat at the table when it comes to finding solutions to the state’s problems, Treasurer Sarah Steelman said in St. Joseph Thursday morning.

A Northwest Missouri Republican and a Florissant Democrat are going head to head in fundraising for the state treasurer’s race.

Arguably the biggest slam dunk for the region during the legislative session saw nothing but air this weekend when a Canadian company decided it would stay put in lieu of building a jet plant in Kansas City.

Gov. Matt Blunt has signed off on a local senator’s plan to repeal campaign contribution limits in Missouri.

Bus drivers throughout Missouri are working at school districts that never ran criminal background checks on them, State Auditor Susan Montee found in a review released Wednesday morning.

Absentee voting begins today in Buchanan County for the Aug. 5 primary election.
Registered voters who can’t make it to the polls that day because of absence or a physical disability are eligible to vote at Buchanan County Clerk Pat Conway’s office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, according to a county news release.

A celebrity slurping down spoonfuls of cereal may spike sales, but backing from political heavyweights in elections may not sway voter opinion as much as endorsements imply, according to area politicos.

A state representative from King City who doubles as a radio talk show host could end up on the big screen, too.
Independent film maker William Lewis interviewed Rep. Jim Guest, a Republican, on Monday for about two hours. He'll use the footage for a new documentary on Americans’ "loss of rights and freedoms," according to an e-mail from the legislator.