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Unemployed Kansas Citians are hurting more now that a $600-weekly unemployment supplement from the federal government has ended.

Kansas City Council members Andrea Bough and Melissa Robinson discuss their response to the ongoing pandemic, calls for police reform, the search for a new city manager and more.

A lot of folks have more time on their hands these days, and that gives them more time to read than they may have had in years.

Conservatives decry the decision, but a ruling by the Supreme Court is being celebrated by hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Two DACA recipients living in Kansas City offered their reactions, and an expert on the court analyzed the decision.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the police killing of George Floyd were just the spark for subsequent protests. Though 52 years passed between the two deaths, there has been little change in the systemic racism contributing to the outrage.

A court ruled last year that Lisa Benson was retaliated against by her former employer, but stopped short of saying she was discriminated against because of her race. Benson hopes the ordeal has forced the 41 Action News team "to confront their racial bias."

A parks board commissioner has proposed renaming the J.C. Nichols Fountain. Its namesake was a prominent real estate developer who used restrictive covenants to keep African Americans and Jews from living in his projects.

Mayor Quinton Lucas discusses the city's crime problem, the coronavirus and a new federal law enforcement effort focused on Kansas City, Missouri, dubbed "Operation LeGend."

The big political news out of Kansas this year is that a Democrat might win a U.S. Senate seat. That’s hasn’t happened since 1930, and is supposedly the longest losing streak for a party anywhere in the country.

The city's latest attempt to reduce violent crime rests on four pillars: prevention, intervention, law enforcement and community, and administrative reform.