Missourians on Tuesday voted to require Kansas City to spend more of its municipal budget on policing, reinstating a policy that had been overturned by the state supreme court. more

Polls close at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2. Below are the results of contested races in the Aug. 2 primary election in Johnson County, according to unofficial results from the Johnson County Clerk’s Office. more

WARRENSBURG - With the Johnson County Primary Election coming up on August 6, Johnson County Clerk Diane Thompson talked to the Star-Journal about what to expect when you go to your polling place. more

HOLDEN — The City of Holden will ask voters during the August 6 Primary Election to approve a general obligation bond for public safety improvements. more

HOLDEN - After denying its approval in the April Municipal Election, voters in the Holden R-III School District will go to the polls for the August 6 Primary Election and have another opportunity to vote on Proposition K.I.T.S., short for either Keep Improving Teacher Support or Keep It The Same, which involves increasing the current operating tax levy. more

JOHNSON COUNTY — Voters in Johnson County will have the opportunity to approve or deny the extension of the countywide sales tax that seeks to improve roads and bridges throughout the county during the Aug. 6 Primary Election. more

Kansas City officials have another chance next month to fend off an attempt by Missouri lawmakers to force the city to spend more of its revenue on policing. more

This article has been updated to reflect the correct name of Johnson County Western Commissioner candidate Jerry Ellis.  more

SEDALIA —  Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Eigel swept through Sedalia on Friday, July 12, stopping at the American Legion No. 642 hall to stump for his own campaign, soundly bashing his own party including Gov. Mike Parson and Mike Kehoe. more

Two Republican candidates are running for state House of Representatives District 54, a two-year term, in the Aug. 6 primary election. more

Two Republican candidates are running for Johnson County Western Commissioner, a four-year term, in the Aug. 6 primary election. more

Three Republican candidates are running for state Senate District 31, a four-year term, in the Aug. 6 primary election. more

The Aug. 6 primary election is officially six weeks away, as absentee voting begins Tuesday, June 25. more

WARRENSBURG – Candidates running for office in the Missouri Secretary of State, state senator and state representative races in the August primary election participated in a Republican Candidate Forum on Monday, June 10 at the Elks Lodge in Warrensburg. more

Missouri will have two constitutional amendments on the Aug. 6 primary ballot, one to grant tax exemptions for child care facilities and another to rerun a 2022 election result on police funding thrown out by the state Supreme Court. more

Three initiative campaigns say they are on track to submit signatures that would put measures to legalize abortion and sports wagering, and to increase the minimum wage, on Missouri’s ballot this year. more

On Tuesday, April 9, Susan Klein, the executive director of Missouri Right to Life, spoke to the Sedalia Democrat about the controversial "Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative" petition. more

SEDALIA — On Friday, April 5, members of Planned Parenthood, the Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, the Sedalia Democrat Club, and volunteers gathered in front of Bazoo Books to collect signatures for the "Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative" petition. more

Two questions and two propositions were up for debate Tuesday in the April 2 municipal election in Johnson County. The Warrensburg capital sales tax improvement question was the only measure that passed. Meanwhile, the Holden R-III School District’s Proposition K.I.T.S., the Knob Noster R-VIII School District’s Proposition K and the Holden general obligation bond question were all denied. more