A safe room and classroom addition at Willard Central Elementary School will be used by the music, arts and athletic programs for a district that had 4,536 students last year, according to Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education figures, but school officials say enrollment is projected to grow.

Newsmakers in the areas of banking & finance, entertainment, flooring, human resources, logistics, manufacturing and trucking.

Vote on jail diversion program is scheduled.

City officials expect new turf fields will be economic driver.

Downtown problems partly a product of perception, officials say.

The Baptist Bible Fellowship International is wrapping up a 30-acre development on the west side.

The commercial area northeast of the Sunshine Street and Kansas Expressway intersection once again has a Pizza Hut restaurant in operation.

Missouri State University’s science building, built in 1971 and formerly called Temple Hall, is being reconstructed and updated.

Newsmakers in the areas of architecture, banking & finance, engineering, health care, law and real estate.

The Well Aquatic Center would front Sports Town along Chestnut Expressway.

Alair Springfield is first Missouri franchise for Canada-based company.

Branson Hills facility consolidates existing services in the market.

Local officials question when or if the Fed will act this year.

SBJ interviews the owner of El Shaddai Farm.

New facility will be Humansville-based marijuana company’s 7th store.

Officials say a third addendum addresses questions about the project, which now has an April 30 deadline for contractor bids.

Brock Rowe offers eight ideas for addressing dangerous property in the city.

Battlefield Mall opening is expected in October, according to mall website.

Debbie Shantz Hart says Nordic Landing is wrapping up along the Grant Avenue Parkway corridor.

Project architect teases Well Aquatic Center development in northwest Springfield.