Silver Dollar City drew 2 million visitors last year, while Smithville’s Main Street now leads to a lake packed with outdoor ...

The main trail at Elephant Rocks is the Braille Trail, a one-mile paved pathway that loops around the park’s most impressive features. It was one of the first trails in Missouri State Parks designed ...

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, about 20 minutes away, boasts Missouri’s highest point and Mina Sauk Falls, the state’s ...

Blue River Road near Chestnut has been closed for around 15 years. Neighbors say it’s turned into a place where people dump ...

The Black River contains the highest PFAS levels in the Grand Strand area inland of the Pee Dee basin. Local groups are ...

Uranium produced in St. Louis was used for the secretive Manhattan Project. Leftover waste was dumped around the city.

Lifelong Missouri birder Jeff Cantrell came across a first in 2013. He discovered fish crows had built a nest in a large sycamore in Roaring River State Park in Southwest Missouri, less than an hour ...

Communities across Wisconsin are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk ...

A 3-year-old boy was ripped from his father’s arms during an assault at a park in March, Missouri authorities said. The toddler is still missing and believed to be in danger. “Zakai Israel Damon Moore ...