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The latest Rocheport Times stories from Cooper County, Missouri, newest first.
October 27, 2026
Drivers around Rocheport and across our coverage area will see flat plates replace raised-letter ones, with seven-digit numbers coming in February 2027. The Missouri Department of Revenue announced…
October 27, 2026
Public water systems around Rocheport and across our coverage area can now apply for up to $20,000 to plug wells that threaten groundwater. The Missouri Department of Natural…
October 27, 2026
Hunters around Rocheport and across our coverage area can donate deer to feed hungry Missourians through an expanded Share the Harvest program this season. The Missouri Department of…
October 27, 2026
Westbound Interstate 70 traffic near Boonville moves into newly built median lanes starting about 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, between Exit 106 (Route 87) and Exit 101 (Route…
October 27, 2026
Boonslick Regional Library’s outreach van stops at Katy Park in Pilot Grove from 1:30 to 3:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, its one Cooper County stop that week. The…
October 27, 2026
Tony Maddex of Pilot Grove Public Works in Cooper County has been named Wastewater Specialist of the Year by the Missouri Rural Water Association. Anthony “Tony” Maddex is…
October 27, 2026
The Boonville Lions Club’s Halloween parade and costume contest steps off at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, on Main Street in downtown Boonville, with prizes by age group.…
October 27, 2026
The Pedaler’s Jamboree, a two-day bicycle music festival on the Katy Trail, rides through Rocheport both ways and opens with a kickoff party here on May 28. The…
October 22, 2026
Farmers and small food businesses in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties can now apply for state grants of up to $200,000 each, and the deadline to get an…
October 21, 2026
Shoppers in Boonville, Pilot Grove and the rest of Cooper County have paid 7/8 of a cent more sales tax on every dollar since Oct. 1. Two increases…
October 20, 2026
Voters in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties will pick a member of the U.S. House on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in one of two races. Rocheport and all of…
October 20, 2026
Rocheport’s seat in the Missouri House isn’t contested this fall. Rep. Adrian Plank, a Democrat, is the only certified candidate in District 47, which includes Rocheport, according to…
October 20, 2026
Most county offices on the Nov. 3 ballot in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties have one candidate each. Only two county-level races in the three counties have more…
October 19, 2026
Two of the questions on this year’s Missouri ballot trace back to votes taken in November 2024. Amendment 3 this year would repeal the reproductive-rights amendment voters approved…
October 19, 2026
Amendment 8 on the Nov. 3 ballot would write the office of county sheriff into the Missouri Constitution. For the sheriffs of Boone, Howard and Cooper counties, day-to-day…
October 19, 2026
Amendment 6 on the Nov. 3 ballot asks Missouri voters whether lawmakers should lose some of their power to change laws that voters themselves passed by petition. The…
October 19, 2026
When is early voting? Any registered voter in Boone, Howard or Cooper County can vote in person from Tuesday, Oct. 20, through 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, without…
October 19, 2026
Westbound Interstate 70 traffic between Boonville and the Route 87 interchange is scheduled to move into the median during the week of Oct. 19, the Missouri Department of…
October 19, 2026
The federal government has stopped measuring how many American households go hungry, but food help in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties is still easy to find, and several…
October 19, 2026
Voters in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties will be asked a yes-or-no question on two appellate judges on the Nov. 3 ballot: Judge Paul C. Wilson of the…
October 19, 2026
Unemployment in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties was between 3.6 percent and 4.0 percent in August, the latest month for which county figures have been published, according to…
October 16, 2026
Hunters and anyone who spends time along the Missouri River in Boone, Howard and Cooper counties are being asked to watch for sick or dead waterfowl as fall…
October 15, 2026
If you’ve driven past the Cooper County Courthouse in Boonville, you’ve probably walked right by her without a second look — an 8-foot copper Statue of Liberty replica…
October 14, 2026
A note from the editor: I should have published this guide before Missouri’s Oct. 7 registration deadline, and I didn’t catch it in time. I’m sorry. The information…
October 14, 2026
A standard homeowners or renters policy does not pay for earthquake damage, and fewer households around Rocheport are buying the separate coverage that does, according to the Missouri…
October 14, 2026
If you’ve ever driven through Boonville on an April weekend and heard a banjo drifting out of a 19th-century opera house, that’s the Big Muddy Folk Festival —…
October 13, 2026
Cooper County’s main operating fund is projected to fall to about $229,000 by the end of 2026, down from more than $1.6 million a year earlier, according to…
October 12, 2026
Cooper County voters in Boonville, Pilot Grove, Bunceton, Otterville, Prairie Home, Blackwater and the countryside between them will see a long ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 3. There are…
October 12, 2026
Two questions on Missouri’s Nov. 3 ballot have a longer backstory than the rest. Amendment 3 asks voters to undo the abortion-rights amendment they approved two years ago,…
October 9, 2026
If you’re 16 or older, earning under 200% of the federal poverty level, and living in Cooper or Howard County — or in Boone County outside Columbia’s city…
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