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Did you find a monster morel?? Bring your biggest morel to the news office for a chance to win $50! You don’t have to tell us where you got it! And we don’t want to keep it! Just bring your most impressive haul to town for weighing and to snap a photo.
The heaviest mushroom will win top...
The Mountain View-Birch Tree school district has settled out of court a 2025 lawsuit over a 2024 student suspension. As previously reported by Howell County News, a student’s mother filed a lawsuit in April 2025, claiming the school violated her son’s Constitutional rights and permanently marked...
The Josiah Howell Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution held a raffle for a grill on March 28 at Hirsch’s Farm Store in West Plains. The winner was Mike Haeffner. The Josiah Howell Chapter of the SAR would like to thank Hirsch’s for the great location for their booth.
For 63-year-old rancher and former triathlete Jamie Albrecht of Houston, life changed in an instant.
A sudden loss of mobility left him wheelchair-bound, but through determination, expert care, and intensive rehabilitation, he has made an extraordinary recovery, walking again and...
Tafton and Lindsey Henderson of West Plains, Mo., are the parents of a baby boy, Leavitt Jay Henderson. He was born March 25, 2026, at 5:13 p.m. at Ozarks Healthcare. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. His sibling is Rory, 3. His grandparents are Rick and Tina Parks and...
More than three thousand voters for the general election on April 7, doubling the turnout from last year’s election.
Willow Springs School Board
In the race for Willow Springs school board, voter rejected incumbents’ election bids and put three new faces on the board. David Baldridge led...
It’s morel mushroom season! Bring your biggest morel to the news office for a chance to win $50! You don’t have to tell us where you got it! And we don’t want to keep it! Just bring your most impressive haul to town for weighing and to snap a photo.
The heaviest mushroom will win top...
Texas County Memorial Hospital exceeded industry benchmarks in key financial and operational indicators board members heard at their monthly meeting on Tuesday.
Linda Pamperien, TCMH chief financial officer, presented Revenue Cycle Management and Physician Practice Management assessment...
State Budget Director Dan Haug announced today that net general revenue collections for March 2026 decreased 1.7 percent compared to those for March 2025, from $878.9 million last year to $864.3 million this year.
Net general revenue collections for 2026 fiscal year-to-date increased 0.7...