Missouri Governor Jay Nixon laughed off the ... She spoke emphatically about the failure of volunteer efforts to limit pumping of the aquifer. “Local control is not working,” she told the ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from ...

One of Missouri's largest cities has indefinitely suspended its recycling program after an EF-1 tornado destroyed the city's recycling facility. Columbia, Missouri, a city with a population of ...