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Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3A law passed by the Missouri General Assembly last year made sleeping on state-owned land a Class C misdemeanor. The legislation was modeled off a template by a conservative think tank, but housing advocates say it criminalizes homelessness and was improperly tacked onto an unrelated bill. -
Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3The new Pennway Point entertainment district, which makes use of space that sat empty for years as industrial storage, is already making some neighbors in the Westside neighborhood uneasy. Developers are building the project without using tax money, but say they plan to seek incentives for the years ahead.
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Independence is the second Jackson County city, after Lee's Summit, to file a lawsuit over the property assessment process. Tens of thousands of property owners have already appealed their assessments, some of which increased by more than 90%. -
A Shawnee resident and a property management company sued the city of Shawnee over an ordinance that restricts how many unrelated people can live in a home. But a federal judge said they had no constitutional claim to sue.
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After two shootings at stores in the Plaza, some retailers have changed their business hours out of concerns for employee safety. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says the city is talking with the Plaza's owners about increasing law enforcement presence in the area.
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Fueled by outrage over efforts to expand affordable housing in Prairie Village, the activist group PV United gathered signatures for three petitions to ditch the city’s current mayor-council form of government and limit construction of multi-family housing. A judge rejected two of those petitions Wednesday afternoon — only to appear to reverse that decision later in the day.
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The KCATA says Kansas City, Missouri, residents will no longer subsidize the costs to run buses through the surrounding suburbs. That's meant a dramatic increase in costs to individual cities — pushing many municipalities like Gladstone and Liberty to cancel their bus service entirely.
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Under the incentive deal, the developer would avoid paying about $28.9 million in taxes over the next two decades.
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For years, residents at Quality Hill Towers in Kansas City have watched maintenance requests pile up, including infestations of bed bugs and other pests. With the help of KC Tenants, 53 residents unionized this summer to pressure their landlord, Sentinel Real Estate Corp., to make long-needed improvements.
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The roughly 17.5-mile stretch of K-10 that runs through Johnson County and its surrounding traffic corridor have long been considered in need of improvement by state and local leaders. The highway sees some 80,000 cars a day, and an express toll way may
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Kansas City has been trying to make Brush Creek somewhere people gather for almost 100 years. Now, the city is giving it another shot with a new master plan based on community feedback in the hopes that focusing on amenities instead of flood control will finally make the creek a destination.
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A frequent complaint among unhoused people in Kansas City is that existing shelters may require them to participate in religious activities or part with belongings or pets. Many choose to stay on the streets instead, even in extreme weather.
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A pedestrian-friendly walkway near the Crossroads is being filled with dozens of neon throwbacks to Kansas City's past, like a 50-year-old sign for the downtown airport and a recreation of the iconic Katz Drug Stores logo. The alley will sit in the middle of the planned Pennway Point entertainment district.
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Historic redlining and lack of green spaces in the Kansas City metro means that, even in the current heat wave, some people will experience temperatures at least 11 degrees warmer. These heat islands are driving up energy costs and causing public health concerns.
