The Willow Springs Bank was organized in 1890 and erected a brick building at the corner of Center and Second Streets in 1893, complete with the city well and water pump in the middle of the road in ...

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Missouri State University-West Plains, MSU-WP, held their dedication ceremony for the new Neurodiversity and Autism Center on Thursday, April 17.This event was attended by former elected officials, ...

Charles (Chuck) W. McClellan, age 63, went to be with Jesus on February 12, 2023, after complications from a stroke on January 31st. while returning home from a week-long vacation with family in ...

A Mountain View mother is suing the Mountain View-Birch Tree School District, claiming the school violated her son’s Constitutional rights and permanently marked him a cyber bully. Last fall, a ...

A group of young students from Willow Springs were kept safe during the tornado events earlier this month thanks to the quick thinking of their bus driver. Willow Springs Head Start Driver Susan ...

Arrests March 17 April Lynn Hackney, 43, 48-hour commit Aaron Keith Dunn, 46, burglary – second degree, stealing $750 or more Sylvia Lynn Owens, 41, four-day commit March 18 Alexandra Nicole Bennett, ...

East of West Plains, along US Highway 63, the tornado ripped the roof off of Bell's Body Shop, demolished a home, and destroyed part of Fiddlestick's Flea Market, ripping the roof from the building, ...

City Administrator Beverly Hicks sought the approval of the Willow Springs Board of Aldermen to send a letter of support of an application for grants through the MEC and Missouri Public Utility ...

On Feb. 26, 2025, a Howell County grand jury indicted Donald A. Macias, 46, of West Plains, Missouri, on ten separate charges. The charges are two counts of felony statutory rape or attempt – first ...

At the end of the April 15 open session, Alderwoman Judi Colter made a motion to go into closed session, seconded by Alderwoman Gail Wallander. The motion did not cite a Sunshine Law exception to ...