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The Kansas Promise Scholarship will pay the cost of tuition, fees and books for students in dozens of programs at Johnson County Community College and Kansas City, Kansas Community College.

Mark Angermayer used to be a pig farmer. When a back injury took that away, he forgot how to dream. His fruit orchard just south of Kansas City is a lesson in resilience and renewal.

College students infuse college towns with energy and money. But now the institutions enlivening college towns threaten to bring death. College classes, dorms and sporting events can spread the pandemic. But unless small colleges can open this fall, dozens, maybe hundreds, will likely go under, taking the lifeblood of small towns with them.

A year of school closures, quarantines and work from home underscored the importance of child care, even as providers in the Kansas City area struggled to keep their doors open.

Irrigation practices are changing, partly because of economics and partly because of a cultural shift among farmers on the High Plains.

Persuasion is proving difficult at the Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron, Missouri, given inmates’ longtime distrust of prison management.

Emergency room nurse Sarimar Gascot says her line of work means she sees death all the time. But a year into the pandemic, she hasn’t gotten used to the feeling of watching a patient die from the coronavirus.

The lack of pharmacies available to administer vaccinations during the pandemic underscores a broader lack of medical resources available in remote parts of the country.

Some local health departments say that the system created to track vaccines doesn't show them county demographic information.

Parson points to an uptick in vaccinations since the delta variant began to spread in southwest Missouri. But the GOP governor says there a percentage of Missourians will not get the vaccine against COVID-19.