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Jackson County residents will decide Tuesday, Sept. 30, on whether to recall County Executive Frank White Jr. Proponents and opponents shared their perspectives ahead of the vote, and explain what will happen if White gets recalled.

The project is meant to prove that large transfers of water could be a tool to help save the disappearing Ogallala Aquifer, which provides irrigation and drinking water to western Kansas. But other groundwater management officials say it’s a distraction from the far more urgent task of conservation.

On Central Standard, we asked our listeners to tell us about the people in their lives and communities who died in 2014. Here are a few of the personal…

Looking for something to do the weekend of August 17-19, 2012? Brian McTavish is back with Up to Date's Weekend To-Do List.Ethnic Enrichment Festival:…

The Senate-approved map consolidates the district of Congressman Emanuel Cleaver to parts of Jackson and Clay Counties, eliminating more Republican-leaning areas to the east. The change would make the district even more safely Democratic while shoring up GOP control of neighboring districts.

KC Tenants and other housing rights groups in Kansas City proposed a Tenants' Right to Counsel city ordinance to provide legal help — free of charge — to tenants facing eviction.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and public radio host Maria Hinojosa will be in Kansas City on Thursday for a conversation about her memoir "Once I Was You."

Ancient waters that lie deep beneath the dry High Plains helped to turn western Kansas into an agricultural powerhouse. But the Ogallala Aquifer’s wells have begun to run dry after decades of tapping it for our corn, wheat and cows. In the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains, we’ll learn how farmers are adjusting as the water disappears and hear how some are prodding state leaders to finally act.

Looking for a great art, independent, foreign, or documentary film to see the weekend of March 9-11, 2012?Up to Date's critics share their three favorite…

The unemployment rate is the lowest it's been since late 2008, but the labor force has shrunk. That could be a sign that many Americans still think there just aren't that many job openings out there.