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Francis Sommer had planned a vacation to Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain to visit an Army buddy. The friendship arose from a particularly fraught 2006…

This year, for the first time, people in Kansas City will officially and publicly celebrate an important day in history along with the millions of others…

Over the last few weeks, as Kansas City artist Israel Garcia made his way through Texans' backyards to the barrier that divides the United States from…

Taylor Swift, The New York Times, and the World Cup have all taken note: Kansas City is a nice place. But does that just mean we’re ‘boring?’

Veteran Kansas City writer Steve Paul's new biography of Evan S. Connell digs deep into the mysterious novelist's life.

As meat becomes more scarce and more expensive, barbecue restaurants throughout the metro are struggling to keep customers — and their smokers — full.

Meet a pack of alpacas, milk a cow and help bring in the harvest at local farms and vineyards around Kansas City.

For 20 years, English professor Brian Daldorph has taught Douglas County Jail inmates poetry. He's compiled some of their works in his new book, "Words Is A Powerful Thing."

Big Brothers Big Sisters has connected Kansas City children with adult mentors since 1964, but as cries for racial justice inspire prospective volunteers, the pandemic creates entirely new obstacles.

Novelist Melissa Scholes Young's new book "The Hive" is about four sisters putting the pieces together after their father bankrupts them and then dies during the Great Recession.