The 41st annual Pelican Festival, hosted by the Grand Lake Association, runs Oct. 3-6 at Wolf Creek Park in Grove.

It looked like Missouri Southern football might be in store for the same ol' stuff when it headed to the locker room at half time on Saturday, trailing Northeastern State ...

Joplin volleyball played in the Dr. Jeffrey Knutzen CJ Classic tournament on Saturday at Carl Junction High School. The ...

Jordan Dickey, who will move into the position of assistant superintendent of finance for the Joplin School District, will assume the role of district chief financial officer on July 1, ...

St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Carthage is hosting a Rosary Rally at noon Saturday, Oct. 5, to pray for the country.

President Joe Biden is calling the Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah a “measure of justice” for his ...

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as U.S. president, Jimmy Carter is about to reach the century mark. Carter ...

Joplin and Republic high schools combined for 87 points in a thrilling game for anyone who loves a lot of offense. There were ...

Carl Junction's Marcus Lopez-Durman rushed for 214 yards and three touchdowns and the Bulldog defense pitched a second-half ...

The discovery last week of what appears to be an organizational chart for a military unit, hidden behind drywall and insulation in a building 127 S. Joplin St., has started ...

A call reporting a trespassing early Thursday morning in the 400 block of South Byers Avenue in Joplin led to a foot chase of a suspect and his subsequent arrest for allegedly distributing ...

Someone pried open the back doors of the Billy Sims BBQ restaurant on East Seventh Street in Joplin overnight Wednesday and stole over $1,000.