KBIA Newscast

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Black lawmakers oppose discrimination bill
• Republication senatorial candidates debate at Branson
• Santorum coming to Missouri for jobs speech
  

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Legislation making Missouri a "right-to-work" state returns to the state Capitol.
• A proposed bill would abolish the death penalty in Missouri, but its detractors greatly outnumber its supporters.
• Republican hopefuls for Claire McCaskill's U.S. Senate seat will debate in a Branson high school auditorium tonight.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri Senate passes legislation that increases the  information government agencies must put online
• Claire McCaskill announces her $5 million re-election war chest
• Missouri State Treasurer announces a new financial assistance package for beginning farmers

   

Regional News Coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• The head of MODOT tells the legislature I-70 may need to become a toll road
• Ed Martin drops out of the Congressional race to join the race for MO Attorney General
• The Missouri Supreme Court decides not to rule yet on the new state legislative districts maps

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• $27 million in grant money to health insurance exchange in Missouri has come to a complete halt
• Missouri democrats block weak workplace discrimination bill in State Senate
• ACLU sues St. Louis for inmate grievances
• Big trucks on small roads--cattlemen vs. MoDOT
  

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• The Missouri Cattlemen's Association is backing a bill to increase weight limits for hauling livestock on state highways.
• A proposed compromise on a texting-and-driving law falls flat in the Missouri Senate.
• Missouri has the nation's highest black homicide rate for the second straight year.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Defeated voter ID bill resurfaces
• A proposed tax increase on hotel rooms could help finance improvements to the Columbia Regional Airport
• Missouri casino operators resist tax to fund state-operated veterans' homes
• MU leaders discuss budget constraints 
• Threatening stickers planted outside Missouri congressional offices
  

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Nixon withdraws nomination of two University of Missouri Board of Curator Candidates.
• A bill that would require voters to show photo ID.
• Regulations that could impact children working on farms.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri tries to refinance more than a half billion dollars of debt as part of Gov. Jay Nixon's plan to balance the state budget
• Missouri General Assembly weighs changes to workplace discrimination laws

• Freshman Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler could face a challenger from her Missouri hometown 

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including: