The measure is in response to a long fight over the Grain Belt Express, a planned transmission line that will cut across a 200-mile stretch of northern Missouri. The changes, however, will not affect that project.

The bill directs the Missouri Department of Corrections to establish a nursery within a women’s correctional facility by July 2025, and allow incarcerated women to stay with their newborns for their first 18 months.

A group of senators used a rarely seen parliamentary maneuver to send a 6-2 Republican majority congressional map to the Missouri House.

The House also approved an omnibus education bill that bolsters reading assistance in schools, and a bill giving more protections to sexual assault survivors.

A bill passed by the Missouri Legislature would reduce barriers for individuals and businesses who want to access solar arrays. It would prevent Homeowners Associations from banning solar panels, put a sales and use tax exemption on solar equipment and pave the way for a "Value of Solar" study.

Missouri lawmakers continue to struggle to compromise on redrawing the state’s eight congressional districts.

Redistricting bill, initiative petition overhaul, abortion trigger heat up chamber factions

After last week's leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court indicated five of nine justices would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, groups are preparing to help Missouri residents access abortion services in other states. Missouri's 2019 trigger law would go into effect if the landmark 1973 Roe decision is overturned. Comments from Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.

Three out of four leading Alzheimer's blood tests were less accurate in Black patients, putting them at risk of receiving the wrong medical treatment.

Abortion-rights activists say their best hope to roll back a ban if Roe v. Wade is overturned could be at the federal level.