Springfield Mayor Ken McClure

Springfield's Noble Hill landfill turns 50 years old this year. The amount of trash flowing into the dump each day has roughly doubled since 2013.

Springfield's 3/4-cent sales tax has a long history, going back well before Mayor Ken McClure and the current City Council were elected. It was initially approved by city voters in November 2009 to bail out the city's retirement pension fund for police and firefighters — which faced a $200 million shortfall during the Great Recession era.

In the 2010s, the homeownership rate in Missouri’s third-largest city collapsed by 17 percentage points. Today, Springfield homeownership has recovered a bit, but it still doesn’t form a majority of city residents — as it once did. Now, the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity is breaking ground on a project to address housing.

Springfield Mayor Ken McClure was elected to the office back in 2017 following a stint as a council member. On Thursday morning, he delivered an emotional speech for his final State of the City address.

Last month in Springfield, representatives of philanthropic, charitable, technological and governmental groups from around the country and here at home,…

Springfield Mayor Ken McClure told a governor’s task force Wednesday that infrastructure is critical to economic development, quality of life and public…

Springfield Mayor Ken McClure Thursday designated July 27th Focus on Renewable Energy Day. This proclamation came after Springfield City Utilities (CU)…

The Springfield Regional Arts Council held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce the findings of a yearlong survey that documents the economic…

Springfield’s new mayor, Ken McClure, was mostly positive as he gave his first State of the City address Thursday morning at Parkview High School. He…