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With music, food, and the great outdoors, summer is the time for festivals and concert series all around Kansas City. We put together a list of the season's can't-miss events, including July 4 festivities and annual staples like the Ethnic Enrichment Festival.

Whether in bar form or bonbon, Kansas City's chocolate game is strong. In the city of Russell Stover, Kansas City chocolatiers are winning international awards, competing on national TV shows and pushing forward the confectionary arts.

As the U.S. celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day and marks Trump's second inauguration, Kansas City activists worry the new president will follow through on campaign promises like mass deportations and clamping down on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But they are also hopeful that people in their networks can band together and fight back.

Tucked in the hills of the Ozarks near Arkansas and Oklahoma, Noel is a summer tourist destination that spans just two square miles. For three decades, migrants have come to work at the Tyson poultry plant, which offered jobs that didn’t require English proficiency at higher-than-minimum-wage pay — until it closed this month.

Kansas City’s Central City Economic Development program, started in 2017, is set to be renewed soon — but critics aren't so sure about a program they say has done little.

The Missouri Senate is considering proposed changes that would raise the bar for voters to pass a constitutional amendment — making it mathematically possible for just 20% of voters to determine the outcome of statewide ballot measures, including the upcoming one on abortion rights.

Forget the diva stereotype: Opera careers are tough, and often strict. But as concert halls reopen after months of shutdown, more than a few singers are showing newfound creativity.

Missouri will hold municipal elections on April 8. Voters across the Kansas City area will weigh in on issues like investing in public safety, improving infrastructure and electing their school board members. Here's a guide to what's on your ballot, plus what you need to vote.

The Wizard of Oz and Kansas have been inseparable since farm girl Dorothy Gale first skipped down the yellow brick road. But having an enduring image from the Dust Bowl 1930s might also hold Kansas back from what it wants to be today.

The primary elections in Jackson County have already unseated an incumbent, and residents will see at least six fresh legislators after the general election. Find out more about the candidates for the three at-large districts.