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

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

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 ...

The World Cup finally comes to Kansas City, Jackson County considers data center moratorium, and more ... Powered by Kansas City PBS, Flatland is your local nonprofit news source committed to ...

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, ...

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 ...

“What college kid doesn’t want access to free pizza?” Jennifer Kabler asked, as she recounted a horrifying evening from two decades ago. She was taking a co-worker home, and he said that his roommate ...

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 ...

On a recent Wednesday evening Renee Maxwell was giving a presentation to about 15 people in front of the Boone County Courthouse in Columbia, Missouri. Soon that crowd doubled, thanks to protestors ...

It was 1954 and he was just back from the Korean War, sitting at Kansas City’s Muehlebach Hotel, having lunch with the former president of the United States. Of all the questions he might have asked ...

Kansas City’s story doesn’t begin with European fur traders who overtook Native American land. But that’s how it’s often taught. We’ve seen it in elementary school pamphlets and high school textbooks, ...