Beyond Our Borders

For decades, the Wonder Hostess Thrift Shop Bakery was an institution at 30th and Troost in Midtown Kansas City. People in the neighborhood remember it…

No one holds a family together quite like a grandma, and through good times and bad, the matriarchs of the Manheim Park neighborhood in Kansas City have…

We talk a lot about community and neighborhoods here at KCUR 89.3, so when it came to our attention that some Kansas City third-graders were investigating…

When out-of-towners visit Kansas City, they are fascinated by the state line. That's one of the messages we took away from our community dinner on…

This story was rebroadcast as part of our best-of 2015 series. It was originally reported in September 2015.The Missouri River shaped Kansas City.It…

The counties and the towns across the Missouri River from what we know as Kansas City-proper have had an identity of their own for a long time. And you…

Before Walmart or Target, there was Red-X. A fixture in the Northland’s Riverside community for more than 65 years, Red-X is not your average general…

It's not that there's a problem with plans to develop the Quindaro Township site in Kansas City, Kansas — some feel it's the way they're being…

More than four out of five Kansas City area residents have to cross the Missouri river to get to Kansas City International Airport. For many it’s a…

Slavery along the Missouri River in what is now the Kansas City metro area was not the slavery of Gone With The Wind.University of Missouri-Kansas City…

This story was rebroadcast as part of our best-of 2015 series. It was originally reported in August 2015.Squirrels can be found just about anywhere in the…

Port KC, the organization in charge of riverfront development in Kansas City, has an ambitious plan for the south bank of the Missouri River. For Michael…