To cut costs, Kansas City Council moved to retrofit the temporary city jail built for the World Cup instead of building a new ...

Kansas City’s latest changeup in a yearslong effort to build a permanent municipal jail involves a $120 million retrofit of ...

General elections in Missouri and Kansas are on Nov. 3, and The Beacon is here to help you feel prepared as you head to the polls.

That question came through in September’s reader feedback through our reader survey at the end of each story on our website, “I have Medicare and a Medicare supplement. Many health care providers ...

A new surgery center in Independence will focus on Medicaid patients. It’s emblematic of progress improving oral health ...

The roughly 150 fixed license plate readers are part of a network also mounted in parks and on municipal buildings, KCK ...

Thomas Friestad will join The Beacon as our new senior reporter covering Kansas City’s City Hall. You may recognize Thomas Friestad. For the past six years, he’s covered some of the biggest ...

Karrie Krause had to take out a bank loan to pay off a hospital bill from 2022. (Suzanne King/The Beacon) In December 2022, a ...

Fitzgibbon joins the ranks of nearly a dozen hospitals in Missouri that have shuttered labor and delivery services since 2010. (Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital/Facebook) For pregnant women living north ...