Gavin McGough

Nodaway County residents will soon see the impacts of a once-in-a-generation investment in energy infrastructure taking place in Missouri and across the United States.

On Jan. 3, 2026, Wilmer Jimenez awoke to texts from his mother who was at home in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Jimenez, a Junior studying at Northwest Missouri State University, was in the United States preparing for the spring semester.

Protests have swept the country since the Jan. 7 killing of Renee Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer in Minneapolis.

Natural gas prices for Liberty Utility customers in Northwest Missouri are set to jump by 70% this winter, according to recent billing statements.

At the outset of the 2026 legislative session, which began on Jan. 7, Senator Rusty Black spoke with KXCV News about his legislative and budgetary priorities and his approach to school funding.

Football, winter weather, and the upcoming legislative session were topics of discussion at a Dec. 18, 2025, meeting of Northwest Missouri State University President Lance Tatum and Missouri Lieutenant Governor David Wasinger, who visited the Northwest campus before the state's 2026 legislative session, which begins on Jan. 7.

The city of Maryville has long boasted three newspapers: the campus newspaper of Northwest Missouri State University; The Maryville Forum – which has covered city issues (under different names and ownership) since 1869; and The Nodaway News Leader, a weekly serving readers county-wide.

As the dust has settled from the combines rolling across Missouri’s cropland, the results of 2025’s growing season are coming into focus, and farmers are reflecting on a season that kept them guessing.

Within the past year, regional authors have released work ranging from an anthology on monster stories and their social histories to a memoir documenting international migration and political tumult to a collection of poetry exploring a lifetime spent in Nodaway County

Mayor Dannen Merrill declared Dec. 8, 2025 “A&G Restaurant Recognition Day,” and presented Owners George and Susan Groumoutis with a key to the city for their years of “exceptional service and community dedication.”