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Looking for something to do for the weekend of October 18-21, 2012? Brian McTavish has some great ideas as he returns with the Weekend To-Do List.NASCAR…

It's easy to forget that the big names of history still have living relatives today.As the many-times great-grandson of First Lady Abigail Adams, art…

Naomi Delkamiller is The Midwest Newsroom's 2025-26 reporting fellow. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Donald Berwick resigned as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in December. Berwick explains why he thinks much of the spending in the U.S. health care system is wasted, and the need to reform Medicare and Medicaid to improve coordination of care.

Mickey Cesar admits his escape plan from Kyiv, Ukraine, last month was a little ad hoc. But he didn’t think Russian President Vladimir Putin would be insane enough to attempt to take the country by force.

Britt Adair, a Kansas City punk musician, died suddenly May 1. As the Kansas City music community grapples with her death, musicians close to her shared what drew so many people to Adair and how much she cared for her community.

From 2001-2021, more than 20% of Kansas City's homicides have occurred in the Santa Fe neighborhood. Last year, the neighborhood became the focus of KC Common Good's efforts to reduce violence by addressing the root causes. Since then, it's seen a 78% decrease in homicides, leaving Marquita Taylor "cautiously optimistic."

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.

If adopted by Missouri voters on Nov. 5, Amendment 3 would end the state's near-total abortion ban and would cement the right to reproductive freedom in the constitution. Opponents have criticized the ballot language for being too broad — and in some cases have spread misinformation about it.

On April 30, 1975, the city of Saigon in South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the nearly 20-year Vietnam War. These are the stories of three Kansas Citians with direct ties to the conflict.