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Dale and JoAnn Romano recently opened Nana's Tiny Town on Main Street in downtown Spring Hill, offering a hands-on children's play center that's designed to look like its own, child-sized main street. It's next door to their other store, the nostalgic ice cream parlor Pop's Sweet Shop.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are vying for their second straight Super Bowl win, but something could stand in their way: themselves. Plus: Small towns in Kansas are using AI to better understand their economic outlook and attract more businesses and people.
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With 53,000 square feet of merchandise and food, Buc-ee's opened its first Missouri location Monday in northeast Springfield just off of I-44. Local officials say the massive convenience store will become a destination on its own.
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Communities in western Kansas are trying a new AI tool to help them target economic growth and hopefully fight long-term trends of population loss.
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After several years inside Made in KC's Midtown market, Brian Roberts is expanding the Black Pantry into its own, 1,500-square-foot storefront on Troost Avenue. The store is expected to feature a retail area with a diverse selection of Black-owned home goods and self care products.
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While dispensary workers see progress — with stores voting to unionize in Kansas City and St. Louis — marijuana manufacturing employees say they are stuck in a "gray area," unable to unionize because they may be considered agriculture workers.
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This month, Alan Kneeland becomes the first Black president of the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association. He's the co-owner of The Combine, a pizza restaurant at the corner of 30th and Troost.
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Halley Vincent, a freshman at Shawnee Mission North, recently opened Seven Stories book shop with her mom in downtown Shawnee, Kansas. Vincent is now the youngest member of the American Booksellers Association, an organization of independent booksellers.
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The Plaza has been losing tenants at about the same rate it signs new ones. Whoever purchases the shopping district may have to invest at least $100 million in infrastructure and building upgrades to bring the area back to its “jewel of Kansas City” reputation.
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Cedar Fair — the parent company of Worlds of Fun in Kansas City — and Six Flags plan a merger that will unite 27 amusement parks and 15 water parks across the United States.
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Tucked in the hills of the Ozarks near Arkansas and Oklahoma, Noel is a summer tourist destination that spans just two square miles. For three decades, migrants have come to work at the Tyson poultry plant, which offered jobs that didn’t require English proficiency at higher-than-minimum-wage pay — until it closed this month.
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A new spot in the Crossroads already offers obscure books and 'this great little collective and ecosystem.' A kitchen offering plant-based eats could open by the end of the year.