Joplin’s North Heights neighborhood will become the setting for a music festival Saturday when homeowners open their porches ...

This Saturday, noon-6 p.m. is the North Heights Porchfest. Local artists perform scheduled musical sets from the porch of ...

A growing grassroots neighborhood festival in Joplin, North Heights Porchfest, will bring more than 50 bands and musicians to this year's event. That's up from 35 performers last year. Porchfest will ...

Porchfest coordinators will share details of this year’s Oct. 5 event on "Newsmakers," a program featured on KGCS-TV.

Joplin’s Parks and Recreation Department has two full-time rangers to patrol and care for all 24 of the city’s parks. The park ranger program has been in place for around 18 months now.

A call reporting a trespassing early Thursday morning in the 400 block of South Byers Avenue in Joplin led to a foot chase of a suspect and his subsequent arrest for allegedly distributing ...

A new Janis Joplin biopic will detail the singer’s “last days” before her death from a heroin overdose aged 27. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Shailene Woodley’s documentary will be a ...

Sep. 23—A judge has sentenced a defendant in a fatal hit-and-run crash earlier this year in Joplin to seven years in prison. Judge David Mouton assessed Ruben R. Blanco, 50, the prison time on a ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin, has died, his family announced. He was 85. “I regret to inform all of ...

Four major stormwater and transportation projects that the city of Joplin intended to work on in 2025 or later are to be moved up to meet schedules for the state highway department’s renovation ...

Kris Kristofferson previously revealed he never thought he'd live past 30 after the death of his ex-partner, Janis Joplin. The prolific country music icon and Hollywood actor—who died peacefully ...

Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley will play Janis Joplin in an upcoming film about the rock musician’s life, making her the latest of many actresses that have been attached to play Joplin in various ...