Ozarks

Once a dominant sound in popular music, western swing is finding new listeners. Reporter Jimmy Rea talks with bandleader Seth Darby about the genre’s roots and its influence on country music and the Ozarks.

"The Shepherd of the Hills," a novel published in 1907, became very popular and helped establish a sense of the Ozarks in minds across the country. Learn more in this episode of Notable MO-ments.

Thirty- seven coffee shops in the Springfield area are featured in the event.

For our pop-up series KSMU Summer Reading, reporter Gregory Holman interviews Susan Croce Kelly about her new biography of a legendary Springfield journalist.

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem was a Missouri man made famous by appearing in a 2017 photo from a Charlottesville, Virginia white supremacist rally, as protesters carried torches and chanted “Jews will not replace us.” He recently died by suicide.

With so many children out of school due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ozarks Public Television has begun broadcasting a new, over-the-air educational…

Statistics show that solid, higher paying jobs in the United States tend to require some kind of certification or degree — and also that rural students…