It actually took Alivi Loveland a good while to finally break into a smile as she and her Sparta teammates walked off the court at the beginning of halftime Tuesday.

If your farm has been in your family since Dec. 31, 1921, you can apply to have it recognized as a Missouri Century Farm.

It would have made a great story for Ozark to bounce back all the way from an 0-5 start to its season and win a share of the COC championship.

The Ozark Board of Education voted to hire two new administrators for the 2021-22 school year at a meeting Feb. 18. Dr. Morgan Kelly was named North Elementary School principal and Tom Colvin was named Ozark Junior High School assistant principal. 

Jaret Nelson might have to put on a baseball shirt to remind some of his Nixa classmates that he considers himself first and foremost a baseball player.

After a whirlwind of a season in which Clever twice endured quarantines and had its share of weather-related cancelations, the Jays opted not to cram a week’s worth of games into this past weekend.

Throughout February, McDonald's restaurants in the Ozarks invite customers to support the two Ronald McDonald Houses in Springfield by donating $1, $5 or $20 and "adopting a heart."

Calvin Rains’ competitive nature knows no compassion.

With Spokane trying to keep alive its hopes of sharing the SWCL championship, senior guards Sam Shuman and Grant Stewart were scoreless at halftime versus Billings on Friday. 

REPUBLIC — Kael Combs has gotten very used to Nixa winning against COC competition. 

REPUBLIC — Nixa nailed 90 percent of its free-throw attempts Thursday, but the Lady Eagles essentially lost at the free-throw line.

Heavy snow, cold temperatures and rolling blackouts led to a not-so-surprising discovery: many Christian County residents don't know and previously didn't care where their electricity comes from.