The son of Hallmark founder J.C. Hall and his wife Elizabeth, Donald J. Hall went on to serve as president and CEO of the company. He and his late wife Adele Hall donated their time and financial resources to many causes in Kansas City.
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Rosilyn Temple founded KC Mothers in Charge — a nonprofit that supports the families of homicide victims — 10 years ago, after the death of her own son. Through her grief, she found purpose by ensuring no family felt the confusion and loneliness she did standing at the crime scene.
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Missouri's Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has repeatedly called out his Democratic opponent Lucas Kunce for not endorsing a presidential candidate. But Kunce says the Senate race is about Missouri, not presidential politics. He spoke with KCUR's Up To Date about his priorities in the 2024 election.
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The reservoirs we depend on for drinking water are filling up with mud instead. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has an idea to tackle the problem, and they’ll try it for the first time ever — in Kansas.
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The Environmental Protection Agency estimates Rush Island released 275,000 tons of sulfur dioxide after it was updated without required pollution controls in 2007 and 2010.
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State Sen. Denny Hoskins and State Rep. Barbara Phifer are running to become Missouri’s next secretary of state, the top election official in the state. Here's what they said on issues like absentee voting, mail-in ballots, initiative petitions and libraries.
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The first-term Republican's re-election campaign spent more than $132,000 on chartered flights between mid-December and June 2024. Recently, Hawley has been hopping around Missouri for rallies with Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker.
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Fighting fires has evolved, but federal safety regulations haven’t changed for nearly half a century. Now the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed new safety standards. It's great news for professional firefighters, but volunteer departments say the new rules could bog them down with expensive and irrelevant regulations.
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Programs that provide drought relief to farmers use the U.S. Drought Monitor to determine eligibility, but some experts say it doesn’t always capture local conditions.
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In November, Missouri voters will get to decide whether two Supreme Court justices will keep their seats. Some progressives want to vote against retaining them because of their opinions on an abortion rights amendment — but it could backfire.
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Kernza is a perennial grain that can produce an annual crop, even as it stays in the ground for up to four years. Its deep root system make it a sustainable crop, but the grain doesn't have many markets.
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15-year-old Ovet Gomez Regalado was a sophomore at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. His death is similar to two other football deaths in Kansas — both also involving teenage linemen.
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A plurality of Kansas voters say it’s a good thing that the state is a regional abortion access point, according to a survey by the Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center.