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Studies on infant mortality during the pandemic are still incomplete, but an area infant bereavement specialist says they're about the same as a typical year's losses—it's the grieving that's been more challenging.

Until desegregation, Lincoln High School was the only place in Jackson, Platte, or Clay counties where a Black student could earn a secondary education. In a city where few pieces of Black history remain — outside of jazz and baseball — Lincoln High remains a monument to struggle and triumph.

The Guadalupe Centers was formed in 1919 to give Kansas City's new, Spanish-speaking immigrants a place to come for resources and support, but over the next century, the Mexican American community transformed it into a place that celebrates Latino culture.

On day 20 of her stay in the cardiac intensive care unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kari Alejandre posted on her Facebook page, “I’m…

Author Frances Levine tells the stories of a mix of women, each with different and very personal reasons for taking America’s first great international commercial highway to the West, in her book "Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail."

Mayor Quinton Lucas recently cited the social habits of people in their 20s and 30s as a major contributing factor to rising COVID cases.

A shortage of affordable housing in Kansas City is not a new problem. But the pandemic exacerbated the crisis and exposed the region's failure to act.

There's a lot still up in the air about the coming school year, but here's a round-up of where Kansas City area schools stand now.