Tag: Health Department

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Live update on local precautions pertaining to the coronavirus, featuring Mary Jo Vernon, director of the Platte County ...

Things are getting more interesting at the City of Parkville. As you’ll see in a story elsewhere in this issue, ...

Let’s start at the beginning. As in Old Spice’s beginning. Available in stores since 1938, Old Spice after shave had ...

M​any downtown Parkville business owners continue to be concerned about a lack of parking in the historic district and wonder ...

Health experts are encouraging patients to get their seasonal flu vaccine against the influenza viruses before the end of October. ...

Potential flooding concerns in response to water releases from the Dakotas have volunteers filling sandbags and fortifying levees in the ...

Plans for the Fairways office buildings were approved by the Parkville Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night. During the meeting, ...

A shortage of the flu vaccine across the United States will also make a dramatic impact on Platte County. According ...

I​n a sometimes lively public discussion that was marked by a mostly fragile civility, Parkville’s Board of Aldermen entertained its ...

A Platte County man is the first in the state of Missouri to be infected with monkeypox, officials announced last ...

Operation Platte County Soldier Support now underwayDo you have a loved one who has been deployed to Iraq? Do you ...

Although the summer months are gone, evidence of the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus continues to lingers. According to the Platte ...

West Nile Virus is here to stay. With this in mind local public health officials are busy creating ways to ...

A horse in Platte County has died from the nationally publicized mosquito-borne West Nile Virus, causing the phone at the ...

The month of June will bring an other facet of Weston’s past to life as mountain men and trappers rendezvous ...

For Platte County residents, being ranked number one in several areas is something they have become accustomed to. According to ...