Names that have been floated as potential attorney general nominees include Jeff Jensen, a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

Missouri’s ban on ranked-choice voting was paired with a provision outlawing noncitizen voting, despite the fact that it was already illegal.

Some Republican lawmakers want to limit — or possibly overturn — Amendment 3, which legalizes abortion, and Proposition A, which raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.

Trevor Hawkins, an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas, remembers how busy his job got when the state for a time imposed work requirements on Medicaid recipients: His office was swamped with frantic phone calls from people who said they couldn’t comply with the new rule because they weren’t healthy enough to work or had

The Missouri Republican is known for advancing arguments made in Project 2025, including that the Comstock Act should prevent the mailing of abortion pills.

The trustees of Missouri’s largest state employee retirement system voted Thursday to prohibit the use of pension funds for political contributions. The Missouri State Employees Retirement System board,

The not-for-profit group originally set up to pay for Gov. Mike Parson's 2021 inauguration gave $150,000 this week to the political action committee that helped get him elected.

Election reform advocates raised about $110 million for the statewide ballot measures, vastly outpacing their opponents, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance figures that could grow even larger as post-election reports are filed. Still, their promotional push wasn't enough to persuade most voters.

Thousands of activists convened for a racial justice conference and vowed to continue to fight against inequities

Arkansas was one of 13 states that received permission to impose work rules on at least some Medicaid recipients during the last Trump administration. Nine additional states requested permission to enact Medicaid work requirements during Trump’s term but had not won approval by the time it ended.

D. John Sauer’s background working to limit legal access to abortion — both in Missouri and beyond — could play a key role as he steers the legal arguments in the U.S. Department of Justice over the next few years.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell filed a quo warranto motion in August seeking to expel Hancock from his office for hiring a family member.