The tornado missed where we were by about 4 blocks. I started about 22nd and Main Street and began working east helping ...

Photographs from The Star’s archives document the destruction, resilience and hope the community would draw on to rebuild.

A disaster of the magnitude of the one that hit Joplin 15 years ago provided a wealth of information for scientists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday is the 15-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, which tore a six-mile-long and up to a mile-wide path of devastation ...

PECULIAR, Mo., May 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, May 22, 2026, Operation BBQ Relief® (OBR) will return to the city where its mission began, setting up at Cunningham Park in Joplin, Mo. to ...

Joplin native Chip Gubera's documentary JOPLIN MISSOURI: A TORNADO STORY is a comprehensive, informative account of the devastation wrought on his hometown by a natural disaster and its subsequent ...

While her home was completely destroyed, Amy Jump, her husband and three children all survived the tornado that devastated Joplin. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Sta Star file photo On the 15th ...