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In the late 1970s, a group of musicians in Topeka, Kansas formed what became one of the first all-women mariachi bands in the country. Mariachi Estrella broke down barriers in a male dominated music scene, before a deadly disaster almost ended the group for good. Suzanne Hogan tells how the band’s descendants are ensuring their legacy shines on, decades later.

With an election year underway, Kansas' 2024 legislative session is gearing up to be a big one. Medicaid expansion, school choice and tax cuts are expected to take up space as the Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate push back against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s priorities.

The Brick, a celebrated dive bar in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District, has been serving affordable comfort food in its low-key digs for over two decades. "They’ve become a sort of family to me,” owner Sheri Parr says of her long-time customers.

Jennifer and Adam Parker started Tiny Pantry Times, a free pantry in their front yard, at the height of the pandemic. Three years later, the Johnson County couple is providing 18,000 pounds of food and other supplies a month, and are working to move to a larger space.

Across the U.S., thousands of children and young adults serve as informal interpreters for family members that don’t speak English. For kids of Latino immigrants in Kansas City, being the family interpreter is an honor and burden. Plus: Gov. Laura Kelly is again calling for lawmakers to expand Medicaid to provide health care to about 150,000 low-income Kansans.

Kansas City got more than 5 inches of snow over the last day, and this weekend, temperatures could drop as low as -10 degrees. Here’s what the city is doing to prepare, and how it plans to tackle the impending pothole season ahead.

A local baseball fan created a Facebook group to "save Kauffman Stadium" over two years ago. Now, their movement claims over 7,500 members, even as the campaign to build a new downtown Royals ballpark gains momentum and legislative support.

Some unhoused Kansas Citians spent the last few nights sleeping outside in sub-zero temperatures. Finding a warm bed wasn't necessarily the problem — they know how to survive in the worst of the Kansas City winter and they don’t like homeless shelters.

Kansas City neighborhood groups use a Missouri law to take control of empty homes with the hopes of breathing new life into them. But the law is also being used to buy up cheap houses and sell them for a profit. Plus: This weekend's Chiefs game will see a match up of two elite quarterbacks who can run as well as they can throw.

Michele Norris spent more than a decade asking Americans to describe their experiences with race in six words. Her new book "Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity" shares those stories, and explores the nuance of how we think about race today.