Ash Grove News

Willard High School officials can take great pride in the actions of a vocal group of students.

You might call it the front line in the battle of a growing county: homes on one side, farms on the other and a county commission in the middle trying to make sense of it all.

Homestead Days Festival near Ash Grove was held this weekend. Volunteers reenact period carpenters, fur trappers, crafters and military personnel from the days when Nathan Boone lived in Greene County.

Springfield residents who want to boost the city's recycling program fund literally can go nuts.

Three Willard High students were killed in an accident on the way home from a school-related event Thursday, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

If you're already crazy about rambling around in the crisp and colorful autumn outdoors, you can go truly nutty during October --given the abundance of ripe black walnuts and hickory nuts now carpeting the region's landscape.

We had a great time at the Extreme Makeover Home Edition in Ash Grove, MO. Hunter Webb, age 8, from Ozark, MO got to demenstrate on a sign he made with hims Mom what his ultimate dream would be... to work with Ty on Extreme Makeover Home Edition! What a fun day welcoming the Hamptons to their new home! Add a comment Name: Comment: 250 Characters ...

An accident involving a school bus carrying 18 children who escaped serious injury this morning has prompted the Ash Grove School District to put a bus driver on administrative leave.

Two people have minor injuries after their car was hit by a school bus on Wednesday morning.

Private Garden recently announced that it will join this coming season's Extreme Makeover Home Edition on ABC.

Will shards of glass and china, bits of metal and other cast-offs help answer questions about life at frontiersman Nathan Boone's home near Ash Grove? People like archaeologist Holly Jones and anthropologist Liz Sobel hope so as they start excavating likely spots where Nathan and Olive Boone, their children and slaves might have left hints of ...

The Beam Store, an Oklahoma City-based manufacturing business, has been selected by "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" to be the supplier of gymnastics equipment for a themed room design in the home makeover for the Chris and Niki Hampton family of Ash Grove, Mo.

Four Ash Grove residents and one Springfield resident were injured today in a two-car crash in Greene County.

Greene County Route F in downtown Ash Grove will be closed Thursday for railroad crossing repairs, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Beginning Friday, Sept. 4, Drury undergraduates in Tom Parker's Artifacts of Prehistoric Culture class began to solve the problem of how to move a five-ton stone without the help of modern machinery.

A number of Joplin-area musicians and singers will be joining many others at the 19th annual Southern and Bluegrass Gospel Music Festival on Sept.

Need information to get your family ready for school? School begins soon in Greene County.

Turnout is expected to be relatively light in the handful of special elections across the Ozarks today.

A dozen issues are on the ballot for Tuesday, Aug. 4, in southwest Missouri. Most all are money issues.

Two women were injured in an early Sunday morning head-on collision near Miller, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report.