Rachel Schnelle
Missouri Feature ReporterRachel Schnelle is a Feature Reporter for KRPS. Originally from Southwest Missouri, she has almost three years of experience working at Midwest Public Radio stations - covering healthcare, community-driven stories, and politics. In 2022, she graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
She can be reached by email at @rschnelle@pittstate.edu
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The rate increase begins on August 3 and will be phased in over three years. -
This year's primary and general elections will decide who will fill the four House districts that have been vacant since the 2025 legislative session. -
Chicken Mary’s and Chicken Annie’s sit nearly next to each other, and they share similar origin stories of women turning to cooking for money after the mining industry left their husbands unable to work. -
Layne Bourgeous was recently hired as the director for Joplin's Regional Commission on Homessless. Before starting this job virtually in April, he was the Executive Director of the Southeast Idaho Council of Governments (SICOG) — a federally designated Economic Development District. -
County officials are stepping in to increase monitoring of the odors coming from the landfill. Residents nearby are worried about safety and property values. -
Social service organizations attribute Joplin’s growing unsheltered population to economic instability, lack of affordable housing -
Kansans with disabilities got more independence through a federal program — until the money dried upThe Money Follows the Person program was set to restart this summer, offering more ways for people to live independently. But Kansas pulled back out of fear that the federal funding was disappearing. Now, social service agencies wonder what will happen to those people. -
Eric Haun is best known for his stenciled heart murals throughout the city of Joplin. But for the past year, he’s been creating and installing something new in Southwest Missouri. -
Some residents of Galena, Kansas, live downhill from the landfill and say smoke and rotten-egg odors are impacting their day-to-day lives. There’s been discussions about diminishing property values. -
To the naked eye, the damage is barely visible 15 years later. But to the survivors, volunteers and healthcare workers, the scars of May 22, 2011 remain.
