From Independence, Missouri, to Osawatomie, Kansas, data centers are angering residents and spurring bipartisan opposition.

The Missouri Supreme Court takes up issues of importance to Kansas City voters, Independence voters decide recall, a murder ...

The Kansas Abandoned Housing Act is working in Leavenworth, and proponents are hopeful it will prove successful in Kansas ...

Flatland columnist Bill Tammeus remembers his nephew, Karleton Fyfe, who was killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ...

Activist groups say they’ve collected enough valid signatures to put the issue before voters. But so far, the City Council hasn’t taken up the petition. The deadline to act is Aug. 31, making Thursday ...

It could be a pivotal week for the Royals’ proposed new home. The $3 billion Crown Center ballpark plan could get a final council vote Thursday, after the Finance, Governance and Public Safety ...

Now that the World Cup is over, Kansas City’s next big competition moves from the soccer pitch to the ballot box. Missouri and Kansas are among five states hosting primary elections on Tuesday. Kansas ...

In 2017, a coalition of Black organizations in Kansas City bucked City Hall — and won. The groups, including Freedom Inc., the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, and the Southern Christian ...

Did Someone Leave the Oven On? The heat is refusing to leave. It’s going to be the biggest story in town again today. Expect more triple-digit temperatures, with the heat index potentially pushing 120 ...

The World Cup has left town, taking Kansas City’s biggest story with it. After six weeks of wall-to-wall FIFA coverage, local newsrooms suddenly have a lot of airtime—and column inches—to fill. Which ...

After six matches and a month of global attention, Kansas City’s World Cup run has come to an end. Here’s what’s happening this week: The Big Dismantling: The teardown is already underway at the FIFA ...

Back in the 1870s in Parkville, Missouri, formerly enslaved men began to shape stones from a quarry. Eventually, they would be used to build a new Black church building there. It took lots of time, ...