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The proposed project would provide years of increased capacity at Noble Hill Sanitary Landfill, which expects to take in some 1,075 tons of trash per day.

Ben Tegeler is a longtime Springfield resident with a degree in community and regional planning from Missouri State University.

Drought is currently affecting more than 10 percent of Missouri’s population, according to the most recent update of the official U.S. Drought Monitor map on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Springfield City Council wants to consider revamping the city’s patchwork of 17 privately-owned trash haulers.

The new Lake Springfield redevelopment plan took roughly $1 million to create. If successful in wooing developers, the plan could cost $1 billion to build. City Council voted unanimously to accept the idea on Monday night — but not without objections from a couple of residents.

By the end of this year or early in 2024, City Utilities and Springfield City Council could sign off on extensive development plans for Lake Springfield.

Defense giant Northrop Grumman is working with the City of Springfield to set up three new groundwater monitoring wells. The plan is to check for pollution from the old Litton Systems plant by the Springfield-Branson National Airport.

According to the Missouri Drought Monitor, 93 percent of the state is in some form of drought.

Dean Curtis is a longtime photojournalist based in the Ozarks, once serving as the Springfield News-Leader photo editor. Seven years ago, he was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame. But for the past 12 years, Curtis has been taking images of herds of wild horses in Shannon County — and he recently published his first book of photography. KSMU’s Gregory Holman caught up with Curtis during an interview at KSMU Studios.