Hear reporting on an IT company expanding to West Plains, a new nonprofit from Chappel Roan that will support the Glo Center in Springfield, an update on chronic wasting disease in Missouri deer and a report on potential impacts to Head Start programs in the Kansas City area due to the federal shutdown.

Hunters taking part in opening weekend next month will need to test deer from more counties.

Public comment is being accepted through October 28.

How far can we see?

Hear reporting on state regulator plans to look at programs helping citizens pay their energy bills, potential new state rules allowing curbside service at marijuana dispensaries and a program by the Missouri Department of Conservation teaching the public about bats.

Randy Bacon, a long-standing Springfield portrait photographer and filmmaker, premieres The Soft Surrender at the Gillioz Theatre on Nov. 1.

Productions of “Dance Nation” at Credo Arts Center will run from October 23 to October 27 and will feature both dance and theatrical performances.

If approved in November, the program would begin next March.

Hear reporting on SNAP payments being put on pause for November, the latest on a potential rental inspection program in Springfield, reporting on the sale of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame building and a look at the MSU Care Clinic on its tenth anniversary.