Weather

Missouri’s top Senate budgeter wants to set aside $5 million for any needed road and bridge repairs related to flooding.

Roads are beginning to reopen around Missouri as floodwaters recede across much of the state.

With spring in the air and temperatures warming up, farmers throughout Missouri will be busy planting crops & moving livestock, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol is reminding all motorists to share the roadways and watch for farm-machinery traffic.

Just weeks after winning a key regulatory approval, one the nation’s largest wind energy projects is facing a new obstacle from Missouri legislation that could prevent the proposed high-voltage power line from being strung across the property of uncooperative landowners.

Flooding along the Mississippi River is closing roads, inundating low lying areas and testing sandbag fortifications.

An Arbor Day event is scheduled for Friday afternoon on the front grounds of the Sedalia Municipal Building.

Floodwaters have begun to recede in parts of northwest Missouri, even as the surging Missouri River continues to strain levees as it makes its way downstream.

In response to flooding and the state of emergency declared by Gov. Mike Parson over the weekend, MoDOT will allow heavier-than-normal truckloads of rock, sand and gravel to travel on Missouri highways.

Flooding has closed about 140 roads in Missouri, even as water levels begin falling along much of the Missouri River.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Friday that recent flooding in the state has caused an estimated $1.6 billion in damage, pushing the total costs from the devastating Midwest flooding to at least $3 billion.