Severe weather possible, the Kansas City Council considers city manager candidates, WWE visits town with Monday Night Raw and ...

Since it became notorious 20 years ago with suspicions about links to the Oklahoma City bombing, this village seems frozen in time. True, some signs of modernization have crept in. The old, dimly lit ...

A couple months ago, Flatland beer enthusiast Cassie Niemeyer taste-tested some non-alcoholic IPAs. Now she’s back with another health-conscious option. Gluten-free beers are becoming more accessible ...

Mia Morrow of Cheffed Up grew up in the world of food with a strong entrepreneurial bent. So when Afterword Tavern & Shelves put out the word last year it was seeking an entrepreneurial chef to team ...

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James Taylor’s new restaurant concept, BLU HWY at 51 Main, packs a lot of traveling metaphors from the back roads of America to locating near the last stop of the streetcar expansion at UMKC. “It’s an ...

Faced with a pandemic shut-down and the likelihood its important patron, the Kauffman Center, may remain dark until at least fall, Shirley Helzberg had no choice but to close her labor of love, the ...

Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, an instant success when it opened in Waldo in March 2016, is opening a second location in the River Market this summer. The neighborhood ice cream parlor with a national ...

After the shootings that killed three people and are being investigated as a hate crime, over one thousand people gathered for an interfaith service Thursday, April 17 in Overland Park, Kan. at the ...

America may know comedian and actor Rob Riggle from his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show” or from roles in movies like “The Hangover” and “21 Jump Street.” But Kansas City knows ...

Gena Kirk did not realize the largest wildfire in Kansas history was closing in on the Kirk Ranch on March 6 until she got a call from her brother-in-law. After realizing that her herd was in danger, ...

On behalf of the editorial leadership within the Kansas City Media Collective, alongside The Kansas City Star, we are sharing an open letter addressed to Mayor Quinton Lucas and the city council of ...