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Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3A group of area researchers, faith leaders and health agencies will receive $1.9 million to expand COVID-19 testing and education efforts at African American churches. -
Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3 file photoThe measure still needs to be approved by the full city council and would face an uphill battle getting the needed buy-in from state lawmakers.
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Melissa Taylor Standridge was opposed by anti-abortion groups because she sided with a court ruling that said the state constitution included a right to the procedure.
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After COVID-19 cases stabilized over the weekend, Kansas City health experts are asking those who traveled during the Thanksgiving holiday to quarantine and get tested.
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Protest groups and social activists in Kansas City are facing a suite of challenges as public attention shifts away from issues of police and criminal justice reform, which mobilized so many during 2020.
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Gun-related suicides among young adults in Missouri had been declining since at least 1999, according to a new analysis from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. But after the state eliminated its permit-to-purchase requirement in 2007, firearm suicide rates among adults ages 19 to 24 jumped by nearly 22%.
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The coronavirus made schools adapt to kids learning from home. And that's made the need to shut down schooling for bad weather a bit on an anachronism.
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Even with advice not to travel this season, hugs and tears flowed inside Kansas City International Airport as family and friends reunited for the holidays.
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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced a plan Wednesday to reduce or waive certain fees for the Kansas City service industry and small, locally-owned businesses.
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Seventy-six rural Kansas counties don't have intensive care units. Yet finding hospitals in cities able to take in their patients is becoming increasingly difficult.
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University of Kansas officials are worried about how students will be spending the holidays at home after COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 5% after Halloween.
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As the University of Kansas prepares to open the men's basketball season Thanksgiving Day, it has paid over a million dollars defending the storied program against very serious NCAA violations.
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The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a tenants rights group against the presiding judge of Jackson County Circuit Court, David Byrn.
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"At the end of the day, it's about what's best for our fans, what's best for the community and what's best for the ball club."
