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Two Kansas City area hospitals have been suing patients over unpaid medical bills. We’ll hear why medical debt is becoming a bigger part of many people’s lives.

Deep Fission’s planned one-mile underground nuclear reactor project in Parsons, Kansas, passed an initial regulatory milestone, but new questions surround whether the project is financially viable and will be completed as planned.

Kansas State Board of Education District 1 covers all or part of a dozen counties in northeast Kansas, including northwest Wyandotte County and northern Leavenworth County in the Kansas City area. Republican Amy Cawvey and Democrat Jennifer Lloyd are both running for the seat on Nov. 3.

One part of City Council's financing plan authorizes $615 million in bonds to fund the future stadium in Crown Center. Another creates a "stadium impact area," where certain future tax revenue increases will be redirected to pay off the debt.

Sheila Bair, a Kansas native who served as the chair of the FDIC from 2006-2011, is in Kansas City this week to accept the Truman Medal for Economic Policy from the Truman Library Institute. Bair said she is worried about the weakening of banking reforms, and sees a lot of risky lending happening right now.

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt had staff members quickly flash a poster with text messages to claim that Jack Smith was in Atlanta during a development in Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump. However, the accusations were immediately debunked, and Democratic committee members did not have a chance to review the records.

Paul J. Essel has been a Grants Accounting Manager at Missouri State since 2019. He is originally from Ghana. Greene County Jail records indicate Essel was detained by ICE in Springfield Wednesday afternoon.

Amendment 3 supporters are emphasizing restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors — even though Missouri already bans most of it — as they seek to overturn the abortion rights that voters approved in 2024.

The Kansas City Business Journal’s Thomas Friestad joined KCUR's Up To Date for a roundup on all things development around the metro.

The former Missouri attorney general finished a roughly yearlong stint as co-deputy director of the FBI.