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  • Getting married and having your first child is stressful enough. Try making those life changes during a pandemic. As a teacher.
  • Regents approved Kansas tuition increases. And Kansas City ended up in the middle of the debate over privacy and national security. KCUR's Steve Bell…
  • Kansas Brownback plans to visit universities to promote his plan to keep higher education funding steady. More and more Americans are turning to…
  • Specialists went to the volcanic island Friday morning local time in a dangerous operation, as scientists warned of a roughly even likelihood of a fresh eruption. Eight people were killed Monday.
  • A hair metal band recruited by the CIA, fake newlyweds and retellings of "The Great Gatsby" are among the stories selected by Up To Date's panel of readers as the best books to pick up this summer.
  • Forty-four years ago tonight, North Carolina State beat South Carolina in the ACC men's college basketball tournament.
  • While many Kansas Citians are focused on the Super Bowl, planning is underway for an even bigger event on the horizon: the 2026 World Cup. Six of those matches, including a quarterfinal, will be played in Kansas City.
  • A poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that nearly 1 in 5 Latinos say diabetes is the major health concern for themselves and their family. In East Los Angeles, where obesity and diabetes are common, community activists are committed to turning the problem around.
  • Heading into the election and in the days afterward, national discussion has centered on how divisive the country feels. Supporting one candidate — and a political party — has been enough to drive friends and family apart.This sentiment came up in an America Amplified listening session on November 10. We begin our final episode of “America Amplified: Election 2020” with excerpts from that conversation.
  • With renewed attention because of the Ken Burns’ documentary on the subject, the Dust Bowl hold lessons for the modern day. Missouri improves its rate for…
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