Renaming the J.C. Nichols Memorial fountain near the Country Club Plaza and the J.C. Nichols Parkway nearby would be an extraordinarily powerful symbol of inclusion for a city that still struggles with racial division. The…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are concerned about a rise in deadly shootings across the region. The Kansas City Star reported Thursday that seven people died over a five-day period. The killings…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Public Schools has suspended its free meal distribution program for students after a food service worker helping with the effort tested positive for COVID-19, district officials said. The…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman has been charged with fatally shooting a man as they met in the parking lot of a Kansas City police station to exchange children. Twenty-seven-year-old Deshonia Diamond is…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shelter-in-place orders are about to take effect for about a third of Kansas’ population to slow the spread of coronavirus, and Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday that she will tighten restrictions…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City research institute became part of the international novel coronavirus story this week when a unique, high-tech biocontainment pod it designed was used in the evacuation of more than…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Once upon a very different time, when Super Bowl tickets cost $15 and nearly every professional football player needed an offseason job to supplement his income and a fellow named Patrick…

Biking advocates in Kansas City are understandably upset about City Councilwoman Teresa Loar’s insensitive comments following the death of a popular local bicyclist. After Pablo Sanders Jr, was fatally struck by a car while biking…

KANSAS CITY — Hallmark Cards Inc. will reduce its global workforce by some 400 people — most of them in Kansas City — as it undergoes a wider “transformation,” executives announced Monday. The company will…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An actress who had a small role in the movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” is accused of fatally stabbing her mother inside a suburban Kansas City home. Mollie Fitzgerald, 38,…