Missouri State football's first FBS season will be challenging as it opens the year with USC, Marshall and SMU.

Who is the best high school football player in the Springfield area? Vote in the News-Leader's fan poll entering the 2025 Missouri season.

With the first day of frost in the area around Oct. 15, fitting in an early fall planting depends on the time to maturity of a given crop.

Tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill are projected to force Social Security cuts around 2032 now. Voters must pay attention, this writer says.

Poet Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, shares some advice — and several poems as examples — of how to incorporate humor into verse.

The administration has repeatedly cast the immigrants being targeted by ICE as criminals but data show most had no criminal ...