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October 28, 2026
Camping on Missouri Department of Conservation land will cost $5 starting in March 2027, including at three Howard County areas near Rocheport and Boonville: Franklin Island, Diana Bend…
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
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
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
Fayette R-III students in Howard County can’t use personal phones or other devices from the time they arrive at school until dismissal, under Missouri’s new state law. The…
October 27, 2026
Three people who keep Fayette’s city-owned utilities running have been honored by the Missouri Public Utility Alliance, the statewide group for city utilities. Curtis Hammons and Electric Superintendent…
October 27, 2026
Central Methodist University in Fayette has won a five-year, $2 million federal grant to help first-year students settle in, stay enrolled and finish their degrees. The U.S. Department…
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 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
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
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
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 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
A Howard County name is on this year’s list of the Missouri Arbor Awards of Excellence — and it belongs to someone most of Fayette already knows for…
October 14, 2026
Thirty minutes north of Rocheport, Fayette is the kind of county seat that still organizes itself around its courthouse square — and the whole six-block district around it,…
October 13, 2026
If you ever need a fire crew to cut you out of a wrecked car in Howard County, the tools they use to do it trace back to…
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 12, 2026
The only contested county race on the Howard County ballot this fall is for treasurer, where a Republican faces an independent. Voters in Fayette, Glasgow, New Franklin, Armstrong…
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…
October 9, 2026
Walk the back roads around New Franklin or Boonville and you’ll see the same two things everywhere: for-sale signs on cropland, and new rooflines going up where soybeans…
October 2, 2026
If you or someone you know has been planning to deliver a baby at Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, that plan just changed. The hospital ended inpatient labor and…
September 20, 2026
If you’ve been putting off your flu shot, MU Health Care is bringing the needle to you. The health system is running a string of no-appointment-needed vaccine events…
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