Kate Mays
News Intern, 2024-2025Kate Mays is the Fall 2024-Spring 2025 news intern for KCUR, and is currently working on their master's degree in journalism at NYU.
Kate received a BSJ in Journalism and BA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies from the University of Kansas. During undergrad, Kate interned at the Kansas City Business Journal and for the Women’s Initiative at the United Nations. They also produced podcasts for KU’s radio station KJHK (and DJ’d a weekly emo show).
Before starting their master’s program, Kate was a producer on the narrative, true crime podcast The Opportunist. Kate plays first base on their kickball team.
Email them at kmays@kcur.org
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With all the track for the KC Streetcar expansion to UMKC now installed, Mayor Quinton Lucas said the project is about 93% done. What's left though is months of testing before it can open next summer. -
Low-barrier homeless shelters open for the winter months starting Sunday, Dec. 1. With thousands of unhoused people in the Kansas City area and only a few hundred beds, many individuals will still be left out in the cold. -
Independence's Twin Drive-In, owned by the B&B Theatres chain, is shutting down after its landlord increased its rent by 350%. Its absence will leave just one drive-in movie theater in the Kansas City region. -
Eight Kansas City-area Applebee's closed overnight this week after their franchisee filed for bankruptcy, leaving just two restaurants in the entire metro. Former employees say they weren't given any warning — and still have unanswered questions. -
The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven has played a central role in Kansas City's music and counterculture scene for 50 years. But now owner Jan Fichman is retiring, leaving longtime customers to reflect on what the record store has meant to them. -
The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City- St. Joseph sent a letter urging parishioners in Missouri to vote against Amendment 3, which would legalize abortion. The letter contained language a judge previously called "problematic." -
Kansas City's streetcar will stop running at the end of September so that construction crews can connect the existing tracks at Union Station to the UMKC extension. The city will offer bus service along the route during the outage. -
Kansas City is seeking proposals from developers to turn the Country Club Plaza's tennis center into housing, retail or both. The land is prime real estate, with the Streetcar extension opening next year and the new Plaza owner planning improvements.
