Belton

For KCUR's ongoing series "The Next Normal," hear stories of people who have been unexpectedly laid off and worrying about mortgages, food and medical bills as Congress plays politics over federal pandemic unemployment assistance.

The bureau said that Timothy Wilson was planning to bomb a Kansas City area hospital, later revealed in court records to be Belton Regional Medical Center.

In this episode, Suzanne digs into the sacred geometry and mysterious happenings surrounding a giant octagon in Belton, Missouri.

FBI officials say a man they shot and killed Tuesday in Belton was the suspect in a "long-running domestic terrorism investigation" who planned to attack…

The fourth grader in Amanda Whiting’s chair had never been to the dentist, so she was a little nervous to be seen at the clinic at her school, J.A. Rogers…

More than 2 million people live in the Kansas City metro, on either side of the state line. They live in urban, suburban and rural communities, and in…

The Latino community in Belton, Missouri, once a military and farming community, is growing.Today, almost 10 percent of Belton’s 24,000 residents are…

As a fairly quiet Kansas City suburb, Belton often flies under the radar. But, with a growing Latino population and a vibrant commercial center, Belton…

Twenty years ago, the stretch of Belton along U.S. Highway 71, now Interstate 49, looked a lot different than it does now. Only a few major retailers had…

The skies across metropolitan Kansas City roared with the flight acrobatics of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels at the annual…

An interview with the political correspondent at NPR. How did her conservative Christian background and growing up in KC help her connect with people on…