The Math Branch Fire is approximately 70% contained. The fire was reported Saturday, January 3, 2026. The cause is under ...

The U.S. Forestry Service reports a 700-acre Math Branch Fire, located in the Mark Twain National Forest, is now 70 percent ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The U.S. Forest Service is tracking a 700-acre fire in the Mark Twain National Forest in the ...

Discover the fascinating history of Hannibal, Missouri, and how it inspired Mark Twain’s iconic stories. Explore the town’s ...

When Ron Powers was growing up in Hannibal, Mo., in the 1940s and 1950s, he would walk to the town’s historic district with a friend and marvel at the variety of license plates on visitors’ cars.

Mark Twain only lived here for 13 years, but many of his most famous stories were inspired by this humble Midwestern city. A visit to Hannibal today, with its excellent museums, preserved historic ...

Reporting from Hannibal, Mo. — It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal’s Old Baptist Cemetery, “a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind.” No moon. Ragged weeds, crumbling ...

I went to explore Hannibal because I wanted to learn more about Mark Twain, but I quickly came to realize there is more to this city than the famous author (but Twain fans will not be disappointed).

A site that Mark Twain once called "a heavenly place for a boy" in northeast Missouri will be the focus of a privately run archaeological dig this summer. Karen A. Hunt, 67, owns property outside of ...

Although Mark Twain's remains were laid to rest in Elmira, N.Y., more than a century ago, his spirit lives on, as evidenced by the thousands of admirers who descend each year on the author's hometown ...

Reporting from Hannibal, Mo. — It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal’s Old Baptist Cemetery, “a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind.” No moon. Ragged weeds, crumbling ...