Facing shortages of critical care beds, medication and frontline staff amid the onslaught of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu, hospitals serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are collaborating to get children with acute conditions the treatment they need.

Lack of rainfall and water restrictions are two early signs of the future that are causing water worries to bubble up in Lincoln. As drought plagues the state, and with climate change promising more of the same, there is a plan to have a second water supply in place by 2048.

In many rural towns, local hospitals are community fixtures. When they close, the entire community feels the ripple effects.

A new federal designation would allow struggling hospitals to end inpatient services, but some have concerns about how that could affect rural health care.

Federal and state authorities are encouraging more rural health care professionals to become certified to prescribe medications containing buprenorphine for patients battling opioid addiction.

Chapter 6: Untouchable. Residents of Kansas City, Kansas, had been sounding alarms about detective Roger Golubski and corruption in the police department for decades. But city leaders did nothing, and Golubski retired in peace while the families of his victims mourned. It wasn’t until a year after KCUR started working on this podcast that the FBI finally arrested Golubski — on just a fraction of his alleged crimes. What does justice even look like after all this time?

Chapter 5: The List. Former detective Roger Golubski is connected to a litany of murdered women in Kansas City, Kansas. Several were sex workers who Golubski was accused of abusing and using as informants. But their cases were never solved by his fellow officers, and their families have spent decades without closure.

A top investor thinks the owner of newspapers like St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Omaha World-Herald are entering a difficult business climate with advertising sales continuing their decline.

The U.S. Department of Labor said a company hired to clean meatpacking plants may have used children to work potentially dangerous jobs at facilities in Nebraska and Missouri.

Checking in on Iowa’s neighbors ahead of election day – Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.