The Missouri Association of Realtors, an organization that spent millions in recent years on two successful initiative petition campaigns, is warning lawmakers it will oppose anything more tha…
Lake Of The Ozarks Politics
Lake Ozark municipal candidate filings have closed and former mayor Johnnie Franzeskos is giving it another run.
In the first week of legal sports wagering in Kansas, more than 100,000 Missourians found out how precise online location tools have become when they were blocked from making bets.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Lake Ozark Mayor Dennis Newberry says he’s salty over the city’s candy ordinance, and on Tuesday night, the city Board of Aldermen took action to change it.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Lake Ozark city officials took another step toward allowing short-term rentals (vacation rentals) in the city, with a vote on a new city ordinance, Tuesday evening.
Lake Ozark Police Chief Gary Launderville is retiring — his last day on the job will be Dec. 30 — and the city is hosting a retirement party on Dec. 20.
On one of the hottest topics at the Lake, LakeExpo.com readers are almost evenly split, according to the results of a recent reader poll.
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — With Missouri’s legalization of recreational marijuana, city governments are already getting the munchies: the City of Osage Beach Board of Aldermen will discuss levying a 3…
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Lake Ozark homeowners may soon be allowed to rent their homes to vacationers.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — A poll of Lake area real estate professionals shows the vast majority think nightly vacation rentals should be legal in Lake Ozark.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Short-term vacation rentals are a major component of the Lake of the Ozarks economy, but in one of the region's largest cities, Lake Ozark, it's illegal to rent your home to vacationers.
Editor's Note: The following two letters to the editor were sent to Lake Expo, expressing support for the planned Osage Nation casino at Lake of the Ozarks. Our coverage of the announcements for the planned casino can be found after both letters.
This story was originally published by the Kansas City Beacon.
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — In October, the Osage Nation Gaming Enterprise Board reported $100,000 in donations to seven Missouri-based entities as efforts continue to establish an Osage Casino & Hotel property near the Lake of the Ozarks.
Missouri joined the growing number of states to allow recreational marijuana, as the hotly contested ballot issue narrowly passed in Tuesday's midterm elections. The vote was 53% Yes to 47% No; the state's urban areas are the reason the amendment passed. In fact, of Missouri's 114 counties, …
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Assistant City Administrator Harrison Fry has been announced as the new Lake Ozark City administrator.
November 8 will see multiple ballot initiatives from investment policy to a congressional congress, but it isn't always clear from the ballot language what exactly these initiatives will do. Keep reading for more information on these little-discussed proposals!
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Vacation rentals — a major driver of the Lake of the Ozarks economy — are prohibited by city ordinance in Lake Ozark, but city leaders had hoped to change that... until Wednesday. The attempt to open short-term rentals in R-1 and R-2 residential zoning districts was met wit…
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Municipal Judge Richelle Christensen is preparing for a change in job title, as the presumptive new Camden County Prosecutor, and has resigned from her position as Municipal Judge.
A question on the ballot for Lake Ozark voters is meant to help the city have more flexibility in how it spends its budget. But it will only do that if voters understand the wording on the ballot.
In the histories of great states there are crucial crossroads. In Missouri, Amendment 3 is a wrong turn down the wrong road at the wrong time. This measure vastly expanding Missouri’s marijuana monopoly goes too far.
A pair of polls in recent weeks found voters closely divided over the question of whether Missouri should legalize recreational marijuana use.
CAMDENTON, Mo. — A plan to build an apartment complex in downtown Camdenton, amid a regional shortage in affordable housing, met with stiff opposition from the neighborhood where it would be built, on Tuesday night. The developer needs a zoning change from the City of Camdenton in order to m…
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. -- Heated arguments, opinions and choice words filled City Hall as developers, aldermen and the president of the school board squared off about tax breaks to build a $63 million, 268-unit apartment complex in Osage Beach.
CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — Concerns about tax revenues and where they're going has resulted in the Camden County Commission calling for a forensic audit.
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — The City of Osage Beach will hold a public hearing on Thursday, before taking a final vote on the incentive package for a large planned apartment complex on Nichols Road.
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — The Lake of the Ozarks' housing shortage could meet some relief with a new, planned 268-unit apartment complex. But the plan to pay for it includes major property tax breaks, and Camdenton R-III School District Board President Gail Griswold says some in the district have c…
The Missouri Association of Realtors, an organization that spent millions in recent years on…
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — "Nothing since the release of names."
The Community Foundation of the Lake is now accepting 2023 grant requests from Lake area cha…
A fireball was spotted flying over Soap Creek Cove on Friday, Jan. 20, and one Lake of the O…
Obituary of Nancy Ann (Walters) Williams
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