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More herbicides could face legal challenges in the coming years, but they were once a key player in the rise of modern industrialized growing systems.

An indie movie theater in North Kansas City explores new possibilities to stay in business, including outdoor eating and drinking, and showing films outside.

Based in Overland Park, Kansas, the Planned Parenthood affiliate has offered severance packages to dozens of employees — some of whom tell KCUR of inner turmoil at the organization.

Climate change and the environmental damage caused by large-scale agriculture have researchers across the country searching for ways to increase productivity without causing more damage. 

Missouri saw a huge increase in hunting activity this turkey season. Almost 20,000 new hunters tried out the sport.

After he was released from a juvenile detention facility, with the help of a series of teachers, Ryan Speedo Green turned his life around.

The food vendors in North Kansas City's Iron District are inside retrofitted shipping containers, and diners eat outside. Outdoor dining combined with a business model that emphasizes low startup costs might help the food hall thrive in the pandemic economy.

Kansas City has increasingly come under pressure for investing in new developments — stretching already thin resources and undercutting revenue streams.

Even as more people use flour baking during the pandemic, some wheat farmers may need help to break even this year.

Chris Harris recently quit his job to go all-in on an idea he's had since the early 1990s: run a pitch-and-putt course where he grew up near 40th and Wayne.

Quinton Lucas says marijuana is often a pretext for police stops that disproportionately affect Black people. While pushing for local reforms, he doubts the possibility of larger, lasting change.

Kansas City's recent demonstrations against police violence and racism have been the biggest in half a century. Here's a look at how the demonstrations have evolved and spread throughout the metro.