Pandemic

Hospital emergency departments are continuing to recover from COVID-19 – and they’re looking at ways to better meet the needs of those needing emergency care. KSMU’s Meghan McKinney looks at how the pandemic impacted ER wait times. And she reports on what healthcare systems are doing to address the problem of people waiting hours for care.

In this segment of KSMU’s Sense of Community Series Entrepreneurship in the Rural Ozarks, hear how a new young business owner found success with a food truck in Monett — and find out how it has impacted his life.

A Springfield-area church and a nonprofit linked to it made statewide headlines for the way they spent taxpayer money on pandemic-era food programs. The church, now considered in "good standing" by Missouri government, denies wrongdoing.

This week, host HuePing Chin speaks with Jenny Filmore Edwards, public administrator for Springfield-Greene County Park Board.Today’s discussion explores…

Most of the people we've talked to this week have taken up new hobbies and interests during the downtime resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This…

For today's KSMU Sense of Community feature on "New Hobbies" taken up during the COVID pandemic, we'll hear from Kristen Schuler, who works as a…