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The Goodwill Excel Center graduated its first class of five adults in June 2026. This tuition-free program offers adults who didn't complete high school a credit-bearing diploma.
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Flash floods devastated parts of southeast Missouri late last week, leaving one person dead. Community members say they're working to rebuild and are seeking help. -
On the August 4 ballot, Amendment 1 reauthorizes a sales tax of 0.1% that provides money for soil and water conservation projects and Missouri's state parks system. -
Among the legislation signed by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe is a wide-reaching public health bill that requires the state to track cases of Lyme disease and alpha-gal syndrome, and allows people to obtain up to 12 months of birth control pills at once. -
Pesticide pollution is a problem especially in the middle of the country. And sometimes there's enough of it to possibly hurt aquatic plants and animals. -
The 1951 Black Friday Flood on the Kaw River destroyed Kansas City's Stockyards and meatpacking industry, did $12 billion worth of damage and displaced 750,000 people. -
For 150 years, silos have been a fixture of the Corn Belt, but efforts to preserve them have been haphazard. -
For the past 25 years, the Midwest Innocence Project has worked at no cost to free incarcerated individuals who believe they were wrongfully convicted of crimes in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. -
A historic rainfall event has left communities across several Missouri counties underwater and prompted water rescues, including an evacuation of a summer camp. -
Financing affordable housing is difficult, but a new Kansas City Regional Housing Fund backed by local foundations hopes to create or preserve thousands of homes across the nine-county area. A similar fund in Cleveland offers an early look at what to expect.
A new episode of A People's History of Kansas City explores the origins of America's favorite red-white-and-blue popsicle, created in Kansas City in 1955.
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